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Ravinia Returns for 2021 Season

Ravinia Festival is back for 2021 for its 85th concert season, offering up a signature blend of classical, jazz, folk, and rock music performances.

WFMT | May 5, 2021

Watch WFMT’s Classical Conversations With Marin Alsop

Keegan Morris | May 5, 2021

Free Live Music Will Return To Grant Park Music Festival for 2021

Keegan Morris | May 4, 2021

In Return to Stage, CSO To Welcome Audiences for Concerts in May, June

Chicago stages drive-through Wagner in underground garage

Associated Press | April 29, 2021

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

Associated Press | April 29, 2021

Twenty-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt worked with everyone from Sam Cooke to Steely Dan to Frank Sinatra.

Black Artists

Recording Registry adds albums by Janet Jackson, Nas

Watch WFMT’s First ‘Classical Conversation’ With Denyce Graves

George Floyd kin joins protest anthem album project

New museum traces history of Black music across genres

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Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig dies at 93

Associated Press | April 26, 2021

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

Candice Agree | April 22, 2021

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

Keegan Morris | April 20, 2021

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.

Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree