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Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Evgeny Kissin perform at the Chicago Symphony Center Wednesday May 1, 2019, in Chicago.

Itzhak Perlman at 75: Violin virtuoso and culture star yearns to return to the stage

August 25, 2020 at 3:00 a.m.

If this were a "normal" year, the music world would be celebrating Itzhak Perlman's 75th birthday – Aug. 31 – with uncounted tribute concerts and gala retrospectives. The Ravinia Festival...

Chicago Opera Theater celebrates ‘Voices of Refuge’, featuring contributions of refugees, immigrants

August 24, 2020 at 9:43 a.m.

Refugees and immigrants have not always been regarded kindly in America in recent years. But artists who have come here from around the world have redefined American and world culture...

Chicago Sinfonietta music director Mei-Ann Chen will helm the ensemble's 33d season.

Chicago Sinfonietta unveils 2020-21 season, online and live

August 23, 2020 at 9:09 a.m.

The Chicago Sinfonietta will present two online concerts and one live concert for its 2020-21 season. Each program will feature a commissioned world premiere, all by African American composers. "On...

Jazz and World Music fests go online for 2020, announce lineup

August 20, 2020 at 4:09 p.m.

The Chicago Jazz Festival and the World Music Festival Chicago will unfold in cyberspace this year, due to the pandemic. Millennium Park at Home: Chicago Jazz will feature jazz sets...

Jazz Showcase founder Joe Segal at his club: A tireless devotion to jazz.

Column: Remembering 50 years of going to Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase

August 20, 2020 at 6:17 a.m.

The first time I went to Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase, exactly 50 years ago, I wasn't sure I'd get in. The man at the door – Segal – asked my...

Welz Kauffman, Ravinia Festival president and CEO, outside of the new Ravinia MusicBox building on Aug.17, 2020 in Highland Park.

After two decades and one ‘silent summer,’ Welz Kauffman bids farewell to Ravinia

August 19, 2020 at 8:26 a.m.

Welz Kauffman did not expect his last season as the Ravinia Festival's president and CEO to be silent. Quite the contrary, he thought he'd be ending his 20-year run with...

Toni-Marie Montgomery, dean of Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, stands outside the school Aug. 4, 2020. Montgomery reports that student evaluations of spring online learning "were really positive."

Can you really teach how to shape a phrase of Chopin or a riff by Ellington online? Music schools sing a new tune for teaching during a pandemic.

August 14, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Gifted young musicians from around the world converge in the Chicago area each fall for the same reason: to study at one of the widely revered music schools. They bring...

Saxophonist Sharel Cassity's engagement at the Jazz Showcase has been postponed to Aug. 20-23.

Downtown jazz clubs impacted by curfew, looting

August 13, 2020 at 5:37 p.m.

The recent civic unrest has affected Chicago's downtown jazz clubs. Andy's Jazz Club, 11 E. Hubbard St., was broken into on Monday, said Jeff Chisholm, a member of the family...

A new look at a great doc: ‘Jazz on a Summer’s Day’ and a visit to the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival

August 11, 2020 at 10:19 a.m.

It's one of the greatest jazz documentaries ever made and perhaps the most sumptuously ever filmed. For Bert Stern and Aram Avakian's "Jazz on a Summer's Day" does more than...

Jazz Showcase owners Joe and Wayne Segal at their new home, the reborn Jazz Showcase at Dearborn Station, 806 S. Plymouth Ct. in Chicago in 2008.

Jazz Showcase founder Joe Segal dies: Chicago’s longest-running jazz impresario presented Charlie Parker and other greats

August 10, 2020 at 6:29 p.m.

Aside from the musicians themselves, no one did more for jazz in Chicago than impresario Joe Segal. For more than 70 years, starting in 1947 as a student at Roosevelt...

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