Playlist: WFMT Listeners’ First Favorites
We all came to love classical music in different ways. Here are some of the musical first loves of our WFMT listeners, in their own words.
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Playlist: Sergio and Clarice, Music Runs in the Family for this Father-Daughter Duo
The father, Sergio, is a guitarist, composer, arranger, educator, and the daughter, Clarice, is a bold and highly innovative vocalist, composer, orchestrator, videographer, and mentor.
VIDEO | Escher Quartet performs works by Mozart, Dvořák for a WFMT Facebook Live
WFMT hosted the Escher Quartet in a Facebook Live from the Village Presbyterian Church in Northbrook ahead of their performances at the 2019 North Shore Chamber Music Festival, which begins on June 12.
Strike Up the Wind Band: Celebrating 50 Years of the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Though Northwestern's band program dates back to 1911, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble began in 1969.
Ron Howard tells Pavarotti’s ‘bittersweet’ story in new doc
"My hope is the film goes a step toward that agenda of his which was to democratize the art form and broaden the audience reach."
Maria Callas will return to Chicago in September. No, we’re not kidding.
Maria Callas will return to Chicago’s Lyric Opera House for one night only... in hologram form!
Purcell opera performed in cemetery catacombs
NEW YORK (AP) — “When I am laid in earth,” the heroine sings just before she dies at the end of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than when the hour-long opera, composed in the 1680s, is performed this week in the catacombs of Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. The ...
Barenboim’s tenure at Berlin’s Staatsoper extended to 2027
Conductor Daniel Barenboim is getting a five-year contract extension as general music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper, which would keep him at the opera house until 2027.
3 Fresh Musical Events for Your Weekend!
We’re getting ready to share our Summer Music Guide (keep an eye out for it next week), but here are three events happening this weekend, each of which combine or reimagine classical music and dance, that we wanted to be sure to tell you about. The Rosina Project It’s Rossini like you’ve never heard him before. Chicago Fringe Opera teams ...
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra cancels summer programming
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has canceled its summer programming, citing $16 million in losses over the past decade. The Washington Post reports the Thursday cancellation announcement by the orchestra comes about a month after the summer season was announced. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan approved a bill then that would give the group $3.2 million in state funding. Orchestra president ...
Video: Guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas Plays A Beloved Albéniz Classic
A successful, in-demand touring and recording artist, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas visited WFMT while in town to make his CSO debut in a program of Spanish and Latin American music conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero.
