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      Roger Ebert on Best of Studs

      Hear movie icon and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert speaking with Studs Terkel in the first of a two-part interview from 1996, Friday night at 10:00 PM. more...

      Alan Gilbert on Bach’s Mass in B minor

      The B minor Mass was written over a 35-year span, and never performed as a complete and distinct work during Bach's lifetime. The original was preserved by the composer's son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who made some editorial changes and had the work copied. In spite of intense curiosity from the likes of Haydn more...

      Listen to NEIU Jewel Box Concerts On-Demand

      Hear Susan Tang in a recital given during the 2012-2013 Jewel Box Concerts at Northeastern Illinois University. Dr. Tang studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and currently teaches at NEIU. There will be four recitals offered for on-demand listening from NEIU’s 2012-2013 season. more...

      All Wagner, All Day on Wednesday

      Wednesday, May 22, 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of music’s most loved, most influential, and most polarizing composers. With his music dramas, Richard Wagner boldly abandons convention; he pursues a vision that reaches beyond 19th century concepts of structure, harmony, orchestration (even inventing new instruments); beyond social mores—beyond anything that more... more...

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      Plays With Others, But Also on His Own

      Joseph Kubera presents solo recitals less often than his stature warrants.

      New Tunes, Old Friends and Poems Set to Song

      The 70-voice New Amsterdam Singers ended its 45th season with a concert that featured poems set to song.

      Via the Baroque, the Flip Side of Spring Frolics

      The Repast Baroque Ensemble presented a decorous concert of works by Dietrich Buxtehede, Matthew Locke, Christopher Simpson and Johann Jakob Froberger.

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