John Von Rhein – Page 5

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>

Vivica Genaux delivers exciting Vivaldi vocals with Third Coast Baroque

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

As Third Coast Baroque, the city's newest period-instrument ensemble, continues to develop a profile and a presence, its Vienna-based artistic director, Ruben Dubrovsky, is attracting soloists from his cadre of...

CSO delivers a winning Ravel program under debut conductor Pintscher

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

Replacing Charles Dutoit for the two subscription programs he had been scheduled to lead with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this spring, before allegations of sexual misconduct prompted management to sever...

Recommended Chicago classical concerts for April 6-12

May 13, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

New Philharmonic: If you're one of those classical fans who can't get enough Beethoven, you're in luck. The Egyptian-American piano virtuoso Wael Farouk will join music director Kirk Muspratt and...

‘Itzhak’ an intimate film portrait of violinist Perlman

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

Documentary films about classical musicians almost always run up against the same problem. How do you present the subject in a manner nontechnical enough to appeal to general viewers, while...

CSO under Kent Nagano delivers a snazzy slice of vintage Bernstein

May 13, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

Leonard Bernstein’s arguably waning importance as a serious composer in the later stages of his unprecedented career will come in for renewed scrutiny as the Bernstein centennial juggernaut rolls on...

Recommended Chicago classical concerts for March 30-April 5

May 13, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

MusicNOW: The CSO’s contemporary series continues its 20th season with the world premiere of Amy Beth Kirsten’s commissioned “Savior,” a multimedia meditation on the life and death of Joan of...

Joan of Arc lives anew, reimagined in Amy Beth Kirsten’s ‘Savior’

May 13, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

Amy Beth Kirsten knew she would be taking on a fearsome challenge when she decided to create an evening-long multimedia work based on the life and death of Joan of...

Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a program featuring Schubert and Weber at Symphony Center on Thursday.

Under Muti’s baton, CSO Chorus delivers fervent, sensitive reading of Schubert’s Mass in E flat

May 13, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

As Riccardo Muti remarked in an interview last week, there are pages in Franz Schubert’s Mass No. 6 in E flat of such sublime beauty that an angel could have...

Conductor and Artistic Director Bruce Tammen of Chicago Chorale, leads the Chorale.

Recommended Chicago classical concerts for March 23-29

May 13, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

Music of the Baroque: Music director Jane Glover, in her final MOB appearances of the season, leads Eastertide performances of J.S. Bach’s deeply stirring “St. John Passion.” Tenor Thomas Cooley...

Singing the praises of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, at 60

May 13, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

Given the astonishing abundance of professional level choral music in the Chicago area, it’s easy to forget it wasn’t always so. Indeed, well before 1957, when Fritz Reiner asked Margaret...

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