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Sources: New CSO president selected

June 17, 2018 at 10:13 a.m.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has selected Vancouver Symphony Society president/CEO Jeff Alexander to be its next president, pending a board meeting Wednesday, the Tribune has learned. Sources close to...

Fans take in a concert by Arcade Fire at the United Center.

How do you dress for a rock show?

June 17, 2018 at 9:45 a.m.

Ogee Muniz, dressed as a Firebird, complete with a red mask, was chatting with her Gingerbread Man-out-of-"Shrek" boyfriend Anthony Cruz in the United Center concourse before Arcade Fire's Tuesday night...

Musician Billy Corgan at his Madame Zuzu's Teashop in Highland Park.

Billy Corgan, a Pumpkin at Ravinia

June 18, 2018 at 8:32 a.m.

Billy Corgan's booking this Saturday night at Ravinia somehow is both odd and logical. The odd part is imagining the ferocious/sensitive '90s alternative-rock god howling, "Despite all my rage I...

Thom Yorke and Radiohead play First Bank Ampitheatre in Tinley Park.

Why do albums take so long to make?

June 18, 2018 at 8:56 a.m.

On March 10, 1967, 15 days shy of her 25th birthday, Aretha Franklin released her 12th album and Atlantic Records debut, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love...

Last recording studios standing in Chicago

June 18, 2018 at 11:10 a.m.

The array of activities is familiar to Chicago Recording Co. general manager Chris Shepard as he walks from floor to floor, studio to studio one late morning: a young rock...

Retired CSO violist William Schoen dead at 94

June 17, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

William Schoen had the resume of a life lived in music: 31 years as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's assistant principal violist and assistant principal emeritus, decades performing in the Chicago...

Review: Billy Joel plays The Entertainer at Wrigley Field

June 5, 2019 at 3:53 p.m.

One of the lesser-known songs that Billy Joel performed Friday at Wrigley Field was "The Entertainer," a caustic bit of showbiz commentary that includes the line, "I won't be here...

Billy Joel’s Wrigley show on, despite death of mother

June 18, 2018 at 9:13 a.m.

Billy Joel's Wrigley Field concert scheduled for Friday will go on as planned, five days after the musician's mother, Rosalind Nyman Joel, died on Long Island at age 92.A local...

Patti Smith performs during the 37th edition of Le Printemps de Bourges rock and pop music festival in the French city of Bourges on April 24, 2013.

Rocker Patti Smith wins Tribune Literary Award

December 17, 2018 at 9:00 p.m.

Patti Smith was writing long before she became known as a rock performer, so the accolades she has been receiving for her written work have a complete-the-circle sort of feel....

Rocker Patti Smith wins Tribune Literary Award

November 3, 2021 at 9:01 p.m.

Patti Smith was writing long before she became known as a rock performer, so the accolades she has been receiving for her written work have a complete-the-circle sort of feel....

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