John Von Rhein

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Music director Riccardo Muti conducts the season's first subscription concerts, which hold Krzysztof Penderecki's "The Awakening of Jacob," Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and the Schumann Second Symphony; violin...

Chicago Sinfonietta: True its mission of diversity and collaboration, the orchestra begins its 30th anniversary season with all manner of novelties. Music director Mei-Ann Chen will kick off a season-long...

Can a former BBC music producer who recently moved to Chicago to take on the first executive directorship of his career keep one of the area's major performing arts organizations...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association announced Monday the appointment of David Chambers, an experienced, Australian-born arts administrator who most recently served as chief development officer of the Houston Symphony Orchestra,...

As Lyric Opera tasting menus go, Friday night's concert bore a more direct connection to the season ahead than many such free community ventures the company has presented at Millennium...

Following are 10 of the more noteworthy classical recordings set for release this fall: Voices of Defiance (Cedille). The Dover Quartet surveys string quartets from the Second World War era...

The connoisseurs' genre of art song singing will never lack a forum in the city's musical life as long as the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago is there to affirm...

Where else besides Chicago can you catch, in the same season, a major celebration of Claudio Monteverdi's operas — and, at the other end of the historical spectrum — festivals...

Stilian Kirov is a refreshing anomaly in an age of young conductors who regard each podium appointment as just another conquest to pad out their resumes. The 33-year-old, Bulgarian-born conductor,...