John, Paul, Johann, and Wolfgang: How Classical Music Inspired The Beatles (and Terri Hemmert!)
Beloved radio legend Terri Hemmert's long and winding road to being Chicago’s resident “Beatle-ologist.”
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From Polka to Mariachi, Discover Why Pilsen is One of Chicago’s Most Diverse Musical Melting Pots
If there’s any neighborhood in Chicago where a Czech swing orchestra and an Afro-Latin funk band can share a stage, it’s Pilsen. The neighborhood has been home to diverse music and musicians since its early history and today it remains a musical melting pot of traditions from around the world.
Video: You’ll Go Bananas for This DIY Keyboard
You don’t need an expensive piano sitting in your living room to impress your friends and family when they come to visit. Instead, wow them with a keyboard you made yourself. Stian Eikeland, a “developer, hacker, techno-foodie, diver, hobby-photographer” from Bergen, Norway, found a way to turn bananas into a fully functioning touch-sensor keyboard. The banana keyboard’s hardware consists of ...
Playlist: 10 Shakespeare-Inspired Operas You Should Know
If “Music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good, and good provoke to harm,” perhaps these 10 Shakespeare-inspired operas will charm you.
“Difficult, But Worth It”: Singers Share Their Secrets to Memorizing Opera Scores by Philip Glass
Anyone who’s ever tried to sing or play an instrument knows that hard work and practice are essential to make a performance successful. But performing music from memory presents another challenge. The repetitions Glass uses make memorizing his music particularly difficult.
Soprano Nadine Sierra wins 2017 Richard Tucker Award
Soprano Nadine Sierra has won the 2017 Richard Tucker Award, dubbed the Heisman Trophy of opera.
Hearing George Shirley, the Met’s First Black Tenor, Sing Mozart Will Melt Your Heart
In 2015, former President Barack Obama awarded Shirley with the National Medal of Arts.
Make Music Day festival is coming to dozens of US cities
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 50 U.S. cities will be hosting Make Music Day, a free one-day outdoor festival celebrating music and music-making. The annual event is June 21, the summer solstice. Highlights of Make Music Day in the U.S. will include Sousapaloozas in Chicago; Cleveland; Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis-St. Paul; New York; and San Jose, California. Part of Make ...
This Split Screen Performance of Bach’s St. John Passion is the Most Metal Thing You’ll Hear All Day
What’s more metal than Bach’s driving bass line, chromatic suspensions, and florid inner voices?
Video: Pianist Vassily Primakov Plays Chopin and Rachmaninoff
The Pregnant Buffalo Lounge, a subterranean space at the Chopin Theatre was home to the second WFMT Cabaret.
James Levine Named Ravinia Conductor Laureate
James Levine, recently retired music director of the Metropolitan Opera, has been named conductor laureate of the Ravinia Festival.
