Announcing the 2025 Ravinia Festival Broadcasts
WFMT's series of concerts from Ravinia Festival returns on Sunday, August 31 at 3:00 pm for a 10-week lineup of wonderful chamber recitals.
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Playlist: Loud Classical Music
Whether you are looking to rev up for the race or drown out the din, this playlist of cacophonous classical music is for you.
Can’t Carry a Tune? Regardless of Skill, Singing Has Surprising Benefits
Musicality aside, all of us (instrumentalists and vocalists alike) derive pleasure from singing along to our favorite tunes, even if it’s only done entirely alone…
Playlist: Music for Children and Parents to Enjoy Together
Pull up a comfy chair and take a listen with the whole family.
New Releases Aug. 12: Birds and Waves
Mandolin music of Italy, Iberia, and the Black Sea in Song of the Birds, and orchestral music by women composers in Breaking Waves. And albums focusing on works by Florence Price, Valentin Silvestrov, and Georg Philipp Telemann.
Grant Park Chorus Director Christopher Bell on the Epic, Sweeping ‘Carmina Burana’
It’s not very hard to sing, but it is hard to sing well. So getting the singers to engage with it can be part of the challenge.
Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies at 88
Palmieri was the first Latino to win a Grammy and earned seven more over his career.
St. Charles Singers Announces 2025-26 Season
The four-program slate opens in October 2025 and concludes in June 2026, culminating in a Italy concert tour.
An Orchestra for the Musicians: Founding Artistic Director on End of Time with Lakeview Orchestra
"It doesn't mean that 'amateur' is bad. It just means non-professional."
Tenor Piotr Beczała sings different productions of Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ 41 hours apart
First he was in Munich with the Bavarian State Opera. Then he was performing the same role at the Bayreuth Wagner festival in a different production.
CYSO Makes History at Lollapalooza
As trumpets sang out their first few notes, the crowd quickly grew in size and volume, drawn to the rare sight of a full orchestra on Lollapalooza grounds.
Swan Songs: Classical Music Inspired by Swans
With this wealth of allegorical associations, these elegant creatures have captured composers’ imaginations for centuries.
New Releases Aug. 5: Bach, Coleridge-Taylor, Hovhaness
Deep-dives into works by JS Bach (featuring the late conductor Sir Andrew Davis, a Lyric Opera of Chicago legend), as well as music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Alan Hovhaness. Plus, meet a lesser-known — but influential — Polish composer: Zygmunt Noskowski. And take part in a richly immersive vocal compendium by Minneapolis-based Cantus.
