Calidore Wins 2024 BBC Music Magazine Chamber Award
The quartet is one of the US's leading ensembles.
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Music of the Baroque Journeys Through Time in 2024-2025 Season
Highlights include rarely-heard gems, beloved holiday concerts, and the 80th birthday celebration of Nicholas Kraemer.
Chopin lovers can’t meet their hero, but this pianist got to do the next best thing
“These period pianos, they all have the ability to play as soft as possible and I think still there’s something there, there is still a core inside.”
Vote for Tchaikovsky’s Top 10 Works
Help WFMT create a definitive ranking of the music of masterful Romantic composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Joffrey Ballet Announces 2024-2025 Season
The 2024-2025 programming is marked by elements of fantasy, world premieres, and the return of a Chicago holiday staple.
From ‘Jaws’ to ‘Schindler’s List,’ John Williams has infused movie scores with adventure and emotion
Orchestral demand for John Williams’ music has risen so much that his career as a classical musician is almost as fruitful as his film music work.
7 Strange, Silly, and Surreal Opera Plots
Take out the high courts and bring in the dancing elephants: here are some of the strangest opera plots that have ever been put to paper.
Chicago-area Bach Week Fest Announces 50th Anniversary – and Final – Season
"It's the right time for Bach Week to bid adieu, and on a high note.”
Philadelphia Orchestra’s home renamed Marian Anderson Hall as Verizon name comes off
Marian Anderson, an acclaimed and boundary-breaking Black contralto, was born in Philadelphia in 1897.
CSO Announces 2024-25 Season and New Artist-In-Residence
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced its 2024-2025 season, a full year of concerts in its mainstage subscription series, as well as chamber, solo, family, and other programming.
Dame Jane Glover Named Principal Guest Conductor at Fort Worth
Glover has led Music of the Baroque since 2002.
