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.
Don't Miss a Beat
8 Musical Side Dishes
Equally satisfying as the main course, these shorter works can round out your musical diet with different textures, flavors, and colors.
Chicago Holiday Performances Guide 2024: Concerts, Nutcrackers, Jazz, and more
From all corners of the city and beyond, take part in holiday cheer with a wide range of merriment.
Holiday Programming on WFMT 2024
The winter holidays are right around the corner, and WFMT has a feast of musical offerings to make the season bright!
Right Place, Wrong Time: Connie Converse 100 Years Later
Revisiting the songwriter who disappeared soon after her 50th birthday.
Unraveling Genius: Capturing Leonardo in Film and Music
Who was the man behind history's most famous "Renaissance Man?"
Ella Jenkins Dies, Age 100
Jenkins, the "First Lady of Children’s Music," died November 9 at a senior facility in Chicago.
Beyond Ourselves: Kirill Gerstein on Music of Wartime
“We, as members of society and also as artists, feel both the need to do something and the helplessness in not being able to influence something.”
6 Infamous, Disastrous Classical Premieres
Some of today's most beloved works of classical music weren't well received when they made their debuts!
Judith Jamison, transcendent dancer and artistic director of Alvin Ailey company, dies at 81
As a dancer, choreographer, director and speaker, Judith Jamison's distinguished career leaped over barriers of race and gender.
Grammy Nominees 2025
Dive in to the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees!
