John Von Rhein

Among the film composers presently active in Hollywood studios, there aren't many whose music can enthrall you without any movie around them. John Williams, who returned to a sold-out Orchestra...

Bach Week Festival: The 45th annual celebration of music by its namesake Johann Sebastian Bach, and related works, includes instrumental and choral repertory performed by local and guest musicians, including...

With solo countertenors coming out of the woodwork, you wouldn't think the classical music world really needs another. Ah, but with period performance going full tilt, it's incumbent on the...

For the concluding program of Riccardo Muti's April residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the music director is focusing on symphonic staples from the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Chicago Master Singers: The enterprising North Shore-based choir under the direction of Alan Heatherington closes its season with a cappella masterworks composed for performance in British cathedrals, including Herbert Howells'...

Countertenors, males of the species who sing in the range of a female alto, continue to be the growth industry in classical music. The global boom in early music performance...

Gaetano Donizetti is hardly the first composer you would associate with Chicago Opera Theater. Until the company's new administrative and artistic leadership team took charge last year, COT in recent...

Spektral Quartet: The Chicago foursome continues its cycle of Arnold Schoenberg's four string quartets with No. 3, paired with Ruth Crawford Seeger's pioneering 1931 String Quartet; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Fulton...

Chicago audiences have heard the most important stage works of Gaetano Donizetti — "Lucia di Lammermoor," "L'Elisir d'amore" and "Don Pasquale" — more times than they care to recall. As...