John Von Rhein – Page 33

Cayenne Harris, director of Lyric Unlimited at the Lyric Opera, said the upcoming collaboration with the Chicago Urban League on an original music theater work will likely address the challenges of growing up in Chicago.

Urban League, Lyric Opera address gun violence through music theater

May 23, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

Through a variety of programs and services over the past 100 years, the Chicago Urban League has been advising and mentoring young African-Americans and local communities struggling on a daily...

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>

COT’s ‘Fairy Queen’ transplants Purcell’s baroque masque to Sin City

June 9, 2018 at 4:26 a.m.

Welcome to Club Fairy Queen, a louche Vegas lounge and hotel run by a sleazy owner-emcee named Puck. The drinks are spiked and the possibilities of erotic adventure are, as...

Cubs fever carries over into Levine’s splendid return to CSO’s downtown series

May 13, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

Chicago's other championship team knocked three out of the park for its beloved former Ravinia chief Thursday night at Symphony Center. Four, if you count "Take Me Out to the...

Tribune Literary Prize winner Philip Glass reflects on his life, music

May 13, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

The audience came to Orchestra Hall on Wednesday evening to get a sense of what Philip Glass, the iconic and prolific American composer, author and winner of the 2016 Chicago...

Third Coast Baroque imagines bright future of thinking outside the Bachs

May 13, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

Like the tendrils of a plant, early music groups in Chicago are reaching for the sun, putting their stamp on ever more specialized areas of the preclassical repertory. This, they...

An uncommon woman’s brief life plays out poetically in Fringe Opera’s ‘Uproar’

May 13, 2019 at 2:17 p.m.

Isabelle Eberhardt, the real-life protagonist of composer Missy Mazzoli's and librettist Royce Vavrek's chamber opera "Song from the Uproar," was at least a century ahead of her time. During her...

Plenty of flash in conductor’s CSO debut, but violin soloist delivers musical depth

May 13, 2019 at 2:17 p.m.

Like Halloween trick-or-treaters, the podium newcomers keep showing up on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's doorstep. Last week's concerts brought the successful subscription series debut of the gifted young German conductor...

‘Ring’-a-ding-ding: Latest Lyric-Second City spoof good for Wagner-sized laughs

June 9, 2018 at 6:47 a.m.

In the interest of truth in titling, one or more of the exclamation points in "Longer! Louder! Wagner!," Lyric Opera's latest collaboration with Second City, could be removed without inflicting...

Conductor Riccardo Muti receives applause before leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Symphony Center on Thursday, June 23, 2016.

Amid record ticket sales, revenues, CSO Association posts $1.1 million deficit

May 13, 2019 at 2:17 p.m.

Despite record sales in single tickets for the main series of Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts, and a slight increase in operating revenues, the parent CSO Association reported an operating shortfall...

Philip Glass, winner of 2016 Tribune Literary Award, reflects on a life well composed

May 13, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

Philip Glass finds it a nifty coincidence that both he and Bob Dylan won major literary prizes this year — remarkable, considering that neither American music icon considers himself a...

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