Juneteenth Events in Chicago 2023
Concerts, festivals, and more to celebrate Juneteenth in Chicago.
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How Women of the Chicago Black Renaissance Changed Classical Music Around the World
Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Irene Britton Smith, Nora Holt, and countless other women of color contributed to the Chicago Black Renaissance and changed classical music around the world.
Video: Hear Third Coast Baroque, Chicago’s Newest Early Music Ensemble
Watch Rubén Dubrovsky and Third Coast Baroque perform the virtuosic music of Vivaldi in the beautiful Trinity United Methodist Church in Wilmette, Illinois.
Visa difficulties force Esperanza Spalding, National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba to cancel Chicago concert
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced that a concert featuring the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba with Esperanza Spalding, originally scheduled for February 9, 2019, has been cancelled.
“Everybody has the blues”: Martin Luther King Jr. on How Music Brings People Together
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s inspiring remarks from the first annual Berlin Jazz Festival in 1964.
VIDEO | Get a sneak peek at Chicago Opera Theater’s Donizetti double bill
Chicago Opera Theater concludes its 2017/18 season with a Donizetti double bill presenting two Chicago premieres: "Il Pigmalione" and "Rita."
Watch Marilyn Horne Song Competition Winners Hannah Rose Kidwell and Christina Giuca perform LIVE
Enjoy a performance recorded live at the Chicago Cultural Center featuring your favorite classics as well as a new work by Jake Heggie.
Inside the Sounds of the Upside Down: Meet the Composers of the Netflix Hit Stranger Things
Get to know Emmy Award-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, and how their interest in experimental music prepared them to score one of the definitive shows of our era.
For the Record: The Library of Congress Welcomes Four Classical Recordings to the National Recording Registry
Every year since 2002, the National Recording Registry selects a number of sound recordings to honor. Here are four classical recordings registered this year.
Opera in New York City to feature inmates recorded in Iowa
CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Inmates from an eastern Iowa prison have spent weeks learning German and perfecting inflections for a recording that will be played during a New York City opera performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Heartbeat Opera invited the Oakdale Community Choir of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center to perform the “Prisoner’s Chorus” for its New York City live ...
Playlist: 10 Classical Works to Put a Little Spring in Your Step
Composers have been inspired by all aspects of nature, and the changing of the seasons is no exception. As the weather warms up and the birds begin to chirp, here are some classical works to put a little spring in your step.
