Harris Announces 2025-26 Season
Welcoming music and dance presentations from Chicago and beyond, the season runs from August 2025 to May 2026.
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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.
Video: Ailyn Pérez performs LIVE at WFMT
Internationally acclaimed soprano Ailyn Pérez visited the WFMT studios to share "The Jewel Song" from Gounod's "Faust" as well as one of her favorite songs by composer María Grever, "Júrame."
Video: Bagpipes 101 with Dave Johnston
Did you know that bagpipes aren’t from Ireland or Scotland, but the Middle East? Discover more about this fascinating instrument with piper Dave Johnston.
Ravinia announces 2018 festival season of music and more
Highlighting Ravinia 2018 is a celebration of the Leonard Bernstein centennial, being organized by the festival’s first-ever artistic curator, conductor, and former Bernstein student Marin Alsop.
Levine fired by Met after it finds evidence of sexual abuse
The company says "it would be inappropriate and impossible for Mr. Levine to continue to work at the Met."
15-year-old pianist Yerin Yang wins 2018 Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition
In addition to performing with the CSO, Yerin Yang will also perform on Introductions, WFMT’s weekly Saturday morning showcase of the finest pre-college musicians in the Chicago area.
