A new study conducted by O2, a company which owns some of United Kingdom’s largest music venues, and Patrick Fagan claims that attending live concerts can help increase life expectancy and improve overall well-being.
Attending live concerts increases life expectancy, improves well-being more than yoga, dog-walking, study finds
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WFMT Welcomes New ‘Morning Program’ Host
When you wake up on Monday, August 6 and turn on WFMT, you’ll hear a new, yet familiar, voice as the host of the Morning Program. Longtime weekend morning host Dennis Moore will take over from Carl Grapentine, who hosted the program for 22 years. Maggie Clennon Reberg, who joined WFMT in 2015 as a part-time program host, will host …
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Music composed by Jennifer Higdon
This week hear music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon.
Michael Tilson Thomas and cellist Gautier Capuçon
Michael Tilson Thomas leads the CSO and cellist Gautier Capuçon.
Playlist
Scènes de ballet, by Stravinsky
Cello Concerto No. 1, by Saint-Saëns
Suite from Romeo and Juliet, by Prokofiev
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Roderick Cox, guest conductor, leads the Grant Park Orchestra in a performance that features Jeremy Black, violin; Walter Haman, cello; Eric Hall, bassoon; and Nathan Mills, oboe.
Playlist
Symphony No. 2, by Beethoven
Sinfonia Concertante, by Haydn
Overture to Tannhäuser, by Wagner
WFMT celebrates Carl Grapentine with Beethoven, Bernstein, and bubbles at Ravinia
On Saturday, July 14, 2018, hundreds of Carl Grapentine’s friends, family members, and colleagues gathered at the Ravinia Festival to celebrate his incredible career as the longtime host of WFMT’s Morning Program.
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Recordings by violinist Bronislaw Huberman
Recordings by violinist Bronislaw Huberman, transferred on Pristine Audio.
Violinist James Ehnes
James Gaffigan leads the CSO and violinist James Ehnes in Barber’s Violin Concerto, Bernstein’s Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances.
L’Arpeggiata
Plucked string player Christina Pluhar leads her ensemble, L’Arpeggiata, in a program of vocal and instrumental music of the early Italian Baroque by Luigi Rossi and his contemporaries.
Estefans: Immigration debate has fueled reaction to musical
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gloria and Emilio Estefan credit President Donald Trump with boosting audience enthusiasm for their stage musical On Your Feet! As the immigration debate has heated up, so have audiences’ reactions to scenes in new stage musical that spins around two immigrants, the Grammy winners said in a recent interview. On Your Feet! tells the story of …
