Carols as Home with the Imani Winds

Enjoy music and conversation with the pathbreaking ensemble Imani Winds.

A Baroque Christmas with Concerto Copenhagen & Il Giardino Armonico

The Christmas season was an extremely busy time for church composers in the eighteenth century: congregations expected newly written music every year.

VocalEssence: Welcome Christmas!

One of the premiere American vocal ensembles in concert.

Vivaldi, with the Four Seasons

Sampling Vivaldi concertos, culminating in the iconic Four Seasons.

Apollo’s Fire: Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain

A beloved program of Appalachian music for the holidays.

2023 St. Olaf Christmas Festival

A cherished holiday tradition.

Christmas Around the World

Candice Agree invites you to celebrate the season with a musical holiday journey, filled with carols, holiday folk melodies, and classical Christmas traditions from far and wide.

Advent 3, Rejoice!

Music reflecting the sense of expectation and impending joy at the coming of the Savior. Peter DuBois will share sacred choral and organ music from across the centuries, written in anticipation of the blessed event. Join us!

Snow Songs for the Winter Solstice

Nothing sparkles in the night like music! A flurry of new holiday songs plus warm notes from bygone days.

New Choral Music for the Season

Discover new music including Reena Esmail’s A Winter Breviary and Roderick Williams’s O Adonai.

Mozart’s The Magic Flute

The Met’s English-sung, family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns.

Handel’s “Judas Maccabaeus”

Handel recast the story of Judas Maccabeus as a celebratory ode to King George II, with music of unprecedented refinement, gripping suspense, and drama.

Miracle of Miracles: Music for Hanukkah

The vocal ensemble Chicago a cappella highlights the creativity and vitality of American Jewish musical traditions.

Candles Burning Brightly

A wealth of entertaining music, a hilarious lesson on how to prepare a classic Hanukkah dish, and a timeless and touching holiday story.

Bach & Kuhnau Magnificats for Advent

A program for Advent featuring Magnificats and festival cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Kuhnau.

A Chicagoland Holiday Preview

A roundup of select concerts for the holiday season.

Sacred Bridges: Psalms of David

Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

An All-American New Year’s Eve: Thomas Hampson Sings Copland and Porter

As the Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, baritone Thomas Hampson joined the Philharmonic in 2009 for an American New Year’s Eve celebration.

Civic Orchestra and Ryan Opera Center

Ring in the New Year with a performance that celebrates remarkable emerging artists in Chicago!

New Year’s Day in Vienna

Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in the annual concert of lively and nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauss and their contemporaries.

A New Year’s Eve Folkstage Farewell to Rich Warren

Founder and host of Folkstage since 1999, Rich Warren gives his final sign-off from WFMT, concluding an iconic career in radio that spans seven decades.

Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Choral Works by Bach and Mendelssohn

Masaaki Suzuki made his NY Phil debut leading Magnificats by Bach and Mendelssohn.

Aizuri Quartet & Beethoven 9

Season Finale: Ken-David Masur conducts a varied program that begins with John Adams‘ Absolute Jest for String Quartet and Orchestra and culminates in Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Ninth Symphony.

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Jordi Savall

Baroque&Before’s special extended Christmas edition presents Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio, written for the Christmas season of 1734-1735.

A Polish Christmas with Lira Ensemble

An introduction to Kolęda, or “grand” carols, and “shepherd” carols, plus Witold Lutosławski’s Twenty Polish Carols performed by the Lira Ensemble.