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Pharez Whitted will lead his quartet at Winter's Jazz Club on Saturday.

Pharez Whitted reaches people onstage and off

December 12, 2018 at 9:27 p.m.

Brilliant jazz soloists always have been abundant in Chicago, but some of them extend their reach far beyond the bandstand. Consider Pharez Whitted, an exceptional trumpeter who plays Saturday night...

Marin Alsop conducts boy soprano Wyatt Parr and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms," Saturday evening at the Ravinia Festival.

CSO at Ravinia review: Marin Alsop’s joyous ode to Bernstein and Beethoven

December 12, 2018 at 9:22 p.m.

No composer meant more to Leonard Bernstein – nor did more to inspire his social activism and hopes for humanity – than Beethoven. Several weeks after the Berlin Wall fell...

Violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Marin Alsop open the CSO's summer season at Ravinia with a celebration of this year's Leonard Bernstein centennial.

CSO at Ravinia review: Marin Alsop poetically launches Bernstein tribute

December 12, 2018 at 9:14 p.m.

In 1986, Leonard Bernstein led his last tour with the New York Philharmonic as its laureate conductor, an honorific richly deserved by one of America’s most revered musicians. That excursion...

Siuin Duong kept her great-grandmother's urn, used for blessing water, from the Cambodian genocide and is among the items she donated to the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie.

Precious possessions: The genocide survivors who kept them tell their stories

May 22, 2026 at 8:20 p.m.

An electric train set taken out of Germany by Jews fleeing the Holocaust. A set of playing cards made from an empty box of crackers by concentration camp inmates in...

Conductor Marin Alsop will continue the Ravinia Festival's celebration of this year's Leonard Bernstein centennial with a CSO concert on Saturday evening.

From Bernstein to Broadway to Latin jazz

December 12, 2018 at 9:09 p.m.

A brisk weekend in Chicago music: Beethoven and Bernstein. Two landmark works will make this one of the most popular Chicago Symphony Orchestra programs of the summer season. Beethoven’s Ninth...

Crouch, Ibrahim to receive NEA Jazz Masters honor

December 12, 2018 at 9:04 p.m.

Critic-author Stanley Crouch, the late singer-pianist-composer Bob Dorough, pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim and composer-bandleader Maria Schneider have been named the next recipients of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships....

Pianist Henry Butler plays at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park during the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2015.

Remembering Henry Butler, a New Orleans giant

December 12, 2018 at 8:54 p.m.

Surely anyone who heard pianist-singer Henry Butler play the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2015 never will forget it. Performing exuberantly at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park — with thousands...

Grant Park Orchestra, bracing interpretations offer fitting 80th birthday tribute to William Bolcom

December 12, 2018 at 8:48 p.m.

The music of William Bolcom spans quite a range, from rigorous symphonic writing to derivative ragtime-piano noodlings. Fortunately, it was the former that distinguished Friday night’s Grant Park Orchestra concert...

Singer Denise Thimes puts down roots in Chicago

December 12, 2018 at 8:38 p.m.

It takes guts to leave your hometown once your kids are grown and relaunch your career in another place. But anyone who hears Denise Thimes sing knows she does not...

Linda Eder, shown in 2017, digs deep in her sumptuous new album, "If You See Me."

Linda Eder hits a personal best with ‘If You See Me’

December 12, 2018 at 8:25 p.m.

The first time I encountered Linda Eder, at Park West in 1994, I hardly could believe what I was hearing. Was it possible that a voice this huge and luxuriant...

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