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Trans-Siberian Orchestra will return with heavy metal holiday tour, ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve’

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The heavy metal, classical music, theater production, pyrotechnics, and laser lightshow hybrid will stop in Chicago in late December.


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Composer Bernstein’s children defend Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose after ‘Maestro’ is criticized

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To some, Cooper’s nose in the trailer seemed like the kind of outsized caricature that has been a regular feature of Jewish portrayals throughout film history.


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Renata Scotto, soprano of uncommon intensity, dies at 89

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Scotto became a successful director after her singing career.


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Opera singer David Daniels and his husband plead guilty to sexual assault

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Both were sentenced to eight years’ probation and required to register as sex offenders.


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Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96

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Bennett’s early career peaked in the 1960s as he topped the charts with “San Francisco” and became the first male pop solo performer to headline at Carnegie Hall, releasing a live album of the 1962 concert.


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Grammys CEO on new AI guidelines: Music that contains AI-created elements is eligible. ‘Period.’

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“What’s not going to happen is we are not going to give a Grammy or Grammy nomination to the AI portion.”


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Muti ends 13 seasons with Chicago Symphony Orchestra with praise and honors — and Beethoven

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“I belong to another period of making music, of approaching the scores, of asking for a lot of time for rehearsals, especially in opera.”


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Riccardo Muti becomes Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director emeritus for life

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The announcement was made on the stage of Orchestra Hall on Friday night after a performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” the start of Muti’s final subscription weekend as music director.


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Tony-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ creator, dies at 99

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Harnick was born and raised in Chicago and earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the Northwestern University School of Music after serving in the army during World War II.


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The Beatles are releasing their ‘final’ record. AI helped make it possible

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Says Paul McCartney, “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would do. It gives you some sort of leeway.”


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