John Von Rhein – Page 35

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>

Ear Taxi Festival of new classical music is off to a promising start

May 13, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

Like a wondrous, multilayered organism emerging into daylight, the Ear Taxi Festival is revealing itself in stages. Chicago has one of the most vibrant, diverse and least hidebound contemporary classical...

Mega-festival of new music celebrates living Chicago composers, performers

May 13, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

Get ready for the most extensive festival of contemporary classical music the city has ever heard, or very likely will ever hear again. Its name suggests what this first-ever, one-of-a-kind,...

Ear Taxi Festival among top classical concerts this week

May 13, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

Ear Taxi Festival: Chicago gets its first and most comprehensive celebration of contemporary classical music ever, a mega-event enlisting the talents of more than 300 local musicians and nearly 90...

Pure gold: Lyric Opera’s new ‘Rheingold’ opens the season with vocal splendor

June 9, 2018 at 2:19 p.m.

This is the way the world begins. On a darkened stage, lit by a single floor lamp. From the depths of the orchestra emerges the E flat major chord representing...

Opera Theater’s ‘Love Potion’ casts a haunting spell

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

Chicago Opera Theater is stepping up its game this season, defying conventional box office wisdom by bringing super-unusual repertory to some new and unlikely venues around town. What's more, a...

Muti makes convincing case for Italian late-Romantic rarities with CSO

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

Little by little, Riccardo Muti has been taking the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra Hall audiences, down nearly forgotten byways of the late 19th- and early 20th-century...

COT is on the move, taking artistic risks, inviting audience to do the same

May 13, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

Ever since Chicago Opera Theater staged composer Ricky Ian Gordon's "Orpheus and Euridice" at a Chicago municipal swimming pool in 2013, Andreas Mitisek, the company's adventuresome general director, has boldly...

Muti and CSO launch season with loving bow to orchestra’s tradition

May 13, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

Season openings at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are almost always more about where the orchestra has been than where it is headed. The concert with which Riccardo Muti began the...

Chicago Sinfonietta season opens with 2 pianos, 3 pianists

May 13, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

The Chicago Sinfonietta's mission over the past three decades to promote racial diversity among its musicians and audience members, while treating its supporters to wildly eclectic programs that explode the...

An epic beginning for Lyric’s new Wagner ‘Ring’ cycle

May 13, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

"It marks the high-water mark of our art form, the most massive challenge any opera company can undertake," declares Lyric Opera of Chicago general director Anthony Freud. It is "Der...

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