John Von Rhein – Page 25

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts

June 5, 2018 at 7:31 a.m.

Contempo: The Chicago chamber groups Ensemble Dal Niente and Kontras Quartet present contemporary works by European women composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina, Grazyna Bacewicz and Kaija Saariaho. 3 p.m. Sunday, Logan...

CSO, Charles Dutoit rescue missing link in Stravinsky’s canon, lost for 107 years

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

It's not every day that Chicago audiences are the first in the U.S. to hear the modern premiere of a recently rediscovered work by a major composer. But that is...

Long-lost opus by Igor Stravinsky gets its American premiere at the CSO

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Apart from a hot young virtuoso exploding on the scene, nothing sets the classical music world abuzz like the discovery of a previously unknown score by a great composer. Consider:...

Pierre Boulez’s mighty legacy lives on in CSO’s MusicNOW tribute concert

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

The impact of the late Pierre Boulez on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been profound in many areas, not least in breaking down the musicians' and audience's inbuilt fear of...

Bella Voce gets up close, intimate in rare version of Brahms’ ‘A German Requiem’

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

It was a different kind of Brahms "German Requiem" that the Chicago chamber choir Bella Voce presented over the weekend. Director Andrew Lewis conducted what was in all likelihood the...

James Conlon saves the day as pinch-hitter for Bernard Haitink in CSO concert

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Those listeners of fanciful mind might imagine that the dark power of fate that gripped Gustav Mahler while he was composing "Das Lied von der Erde" ("The Song of the...

Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Bella Voce: Who knew that Brahms "A German Requiem" exists in an alternative version for chamber chorus, bass soloist and piano four hands? That's how the masterpiece was first heard,...

After 40 years, Anne-Sophie Mutter leads ever-growing field of female violinists

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

While the feeble representation of women conductors of international rank has been widely lamented, the fact that a record number of female violinists have advanced to the top echelon of...

Opera review: Lyric’s Charlie Parker biopera slick but elusive

December 17, 2018 at 5:11 p.m.

If you weren't already conversant with the music and history surrounding the short-lived jazz pioneer before attending the chamber opera "Charlie Parker's Yardbird," you may have gone out of the...

Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Chicago Sinfonietta: Guest conductor Michael Morgan directs a concert celebrating the artistry of LGBTQ composers and performers, with piano soloist Sara Davis Buechner and the Allegrezza Singers. The program includes...

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