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Carl's Morning Quiz

Carl's Morning Quiz: Today is the birthday of Hector Berlioz, born in 1803 near Grenoble. Last week we had a question about his Symphonie Fantastique which was on last week�s CSO concerts. Riccardo Muti opened the 2010 CSO season with the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique AND its seldom-heard companion piece. What is the name of the other work by Berlioz? Answer >>

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Chicago Classical Calendar

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Chicago-area concerts.

Music for Children

Kerry Frumkin presents Poulenc's The Story of Babar, narrated by Meryl Streep with the New Zealand Symphony.
Thursday at 1:00 pm

Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio: Brazilian Nights
Friday at 11:00 pm

December's theme:
Children & Childhood

An Artist that Innovates

[WFMT Impromptu, Thursday at 11:00 AM] Jeffrey Siegel has made his rounds on various orchestra broadcasts, traveling from New York, to London, to Berlin, to Chicago. Such is the life of a concert pianist, but this one decided to become a value-added pianist; he liked talking from the piano, and the audience seemed to eat it up more...

Gaudete LIVE on Dame Myra Hess

A year ago they were featured on WFMT's The New Releases with a highly acclaimed CD of American composers, the oldest of those works was written six years before. Today on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, they'll go back a little farther—four or five hundred years—for some Renaissance works, including music by the German more...

Video Exclusive: An American Prince Charming

[LIVE Broadcast, Tuesday at 7:15] Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus has a fairy tale quality (although it's most decidedly adult). Set in the perfumed world of Imperial Vienna, the maestro in the middle for Lyric's production is the dashing, young American Ward Stare. more...

Deborah Rutter to Head Kennedy Center

[Web exclusive interview with Deborah Rutter] Chicago's loss is the capitol's gain, Deborah Rutter has taken a new post as President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It is difficult to measure the impact this affable, unassuming (though tough as nails) woman has had on the city of Chicago. One has to dig and reflect, because she is not one to toot her own horn: first and foremost, she brought Riccardo Muti more...