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Announcing: WFMT’s Live Grant Park Music Festival 2025 Concerts

Join us throughout the summer as we share some of Chicago’s most exciting and inspiring music making!

Keegan MorrisOctober 23, 2023

Opera on Film: 6 Movies that Showcase Opera’s Drama, Emotion, Glamor, and Beauty

Keegan MorrisOctober 23, 2023

Halloweek Arts and Music Events in Chicago

Associated PressOctober 23, 2023

Philadelphia Orchestra and musicians agree to 3-year labor deal with 15.8% salary increase

Sérgio Mendes, Grammy-winning Brazilian music legend, dies at 83

Associated PressSeptember 6, 2024

The celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died.

John, Paul, Johann, and Wolfgang: How Classical Music Inspired The Beatles (and Terri Hemmert!)

Adela SkowronskiSeptember 5, 2024

Beloved radio legend Terri Hemmert's long and winding road to being Chicago’s resident “Beatle-ologist.”

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Chicago International Film Festival 2023: 7 Movies for Music Lovers

Keegan MorrisOctober 12, 2023

North America's longest continually running competitive film festival returns for another year of scintillating programming.

Catching Up with Ryan Speedo Green

Oliver CamachoOctober 11, 2023

"It is rare, not only for a male singer who's not a tenor, but especially a bass-baritone to be able to do this kind of concert with an orchestra like the Chicago Philharmonic."

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Open House Chicago 2023: 16 Spectacular Sites for Art and Music Lovers

Keegan MorrisOctober 11, 2023

Each year, Chicago’s most architecturally inclined residents crisscross the city to check out some of the city’s most intriguing and vaunted buildings!

Afternoon Music with Candice Agree