John Von Rhein

Make Music Chicago: The seventh annual Summer Solstice festival of free musical events — more than 150 performances in all — will bring more than a dozen ensembles and countless...

Put famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Chicago priest and civil rights activist the Rev. Michael Pfleger in front of a clamorous throng of music-loving congregants and you are reminded how...

Dr. Philip Gossett, a retired music scholar and professor of music at the University of Chicago who was considered one of the world's foremost experts on 19th-century Italian opera, died...

More than one conductor will tell you that while the music of Mozart may look simple on the page, the myriad challenges that music poses are anything but simple. The...

Grant Park Music Festival: The 10-week season of 30 classical and popular concerts by the Grant Park Orchestra in its spectacular lakefront setting gets underway with soloist Vadim Gluzman playing...

Revitalized by dynamic artistic leadership and its classy lakefront digs, the Grant Park Music Festival has been a game-changer for Chicago summer music in the 13 years since the Grant...

In this best of all possible worlds, there is no such thing as a truly definitive version of "Candide," only earnest approximations of the wonderful if problematic Leonard Bernstein musical...

As the Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription series winds down to a handful of concerts, several impressive Chicago podium debuts are helping to stave off end-of-season ennui. The first of these,...

North Shore Chamber Music Festival: Directors Vadim Gluzman, violin, and Angela Yoffe, piano, will preside over the seventh annual edition, including performances by the Escher String Quartet; a mostly Mozart...

Last week's dramatic news, which the Tribune reported exclusively, that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has denied tenure to principal oboe Alex Klein, has prompted much buzz in the classical music...