John Von Rhein

Featured pick: Collaborative Works Festival: The emphasis will be on French melodies in the fifth annual celebration of the art song presented by the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago. The...

There are festivals, then there are Festivals. The BBC Proms, which comprises more than 90 events presented nightly for two months here beginning in mid-July, is larger in size, scope...

Featured pick: Rush Hour Concerts: The 17th season of free weekday summer chamber concerts concludes with an all-French program — Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and Poulenc's...

Featured pick: Grant Park Music Festival: The festival's 82nd season concludes with Berlioz's dramatic legend "The Damnation of Faust," with Carlos Kalmar leading the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, and...

For concert pianists of every generation, climbing the Everest that is the Beethoven piano sonatas represents a rite of passage, an artistic statement that risks odious comparisons with the interpretations...

A dozen years ago, the music stopped for Alex Klein. In May 2001, Klein, then serving as principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, found himself losing control of his...

Concerts this week by the Grant Park Orchestra at Millennium Park and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia gave rare exposure to once highly acclaimed symphonies by important American composers...

Featured pick: Silk Road Ensemble: Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma brings his international team of instrumentalists back to Ravinia for an eclectic program of boundary-busting global music. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Ravinia...

Monumental Mozart and playful Gandolfi: Not the first combination that springs to mind for a normal classical program. But, then, unusual musical juxtapositions have long been par for the summer...

Fans of the Russian firebrand pianist Daniil Trifonov who came to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert Tuesday night at Ravinia hoping to hear his first orchestral performance at the festival...