Chicago Music and Arts Events for Lunar New Year
In Chicago, festivities abound in the weeks surrounding the dawning Year of the Dragon.
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Watch WFMT’s Classical Conversations With Marin Alsop
One of the world's leading conductors, Marin Alsop was in 2020 appointed the principal conductor and curator of the Ravinia Festival. WFMT was honored to speak with the celebrated conductor in the latest installment of our Classical Conversations series.
Free Live Music Will Return To Grant Park Music Festival for 2021
The Grant Park Music Festival today announced its return to live music in a 2021 season, the festival’s first live performances since August 2019.
In Return to Stage, CSO To Welcome Audiences for Concerts in May, June
The CSO will return in May and June for a slate of performances, the orchestra's first since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Chicago stages drive-through Wagner in underground garage
The production is called “Twilight: Gods" and comes a year after Lyric Opera's production of the complete Ring cycle was scuttled by the pandemic.
Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91
Twenty-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt worked with everyone from Sam Cooke to Steely Dan to Frank Sinatra.
Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig dies at 93
Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, had died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
‘A rose for love and a book forever’: Literature for Music Lovers on World Book Day
WFMT host Candice Agree has selected some of her favorite works of literature that have inspired musical compositions for you to enjoy on World Book Day.
CSO Announces Next Mead Composer-in-Residence
Riccardo Muti has appointed Jessie Montgomery as the Mead Composer-in-Residence. Montgomery will succeed the CSO's current composer-in-residence, Missy Mazzoli, in July of this year.
Playlist: Classical Music for the Earth and Environment
Composers like Terence Blanchard, Ludovico Einaudi, Rachel Portman, and Lei Liang have brought light to the ongoing climate catastrophe through their music.
LA Phil’s Dudamel to become music director of Paris Opera
Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the Paris Opera while continuing his commitment to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
