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Giancarlo Guerrero’s Grant Park: A New Maestro Takes the Baton

“Now that I am artistic director, I get to find excuses to make music with these amazing colleagues. They inspire not only our orchestra, but our audiences.”

Associated PressSeptember 19, 2023

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, musicians union agree to 3-year contract

Keegan MorrisSeptember 14, 2023

Chamber Music on the Fox Returns for 10th Season

Anthony Freud poses in the auditorium of the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Associated PressSeptember 14, 2023

Anthony Freud to retire as head of Lyric Opera of Chicago at end of 2023-24 season

A Music Lesson with Victor Wooten

Adela SkowronskiAugust 16, 2024

Five-time Grammy award winner and bass icon Victor Wooten talks about tackling a new challenge: writing a concerto for electric bass.

11 Legendary Classical Music Venues You Should Know (and Visit)

Louise Kern-KenslerAugust 10, 2024

The world’s great concert halls, opera houses, and performance spaces are more than just buildings. They are the homes of centuries-old musical traditions.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto gazes pensively at the camera

‘Opus,’ the farewell of Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, will premiere at Venice Film Festival

Associated PressAugust 29, 2023

Sakamoto had been battling cancer since 2014, and could no longer do concert performances, and so he turned to film. The filming took place over several days, just a half year before his death on March 28 at 71.

Playlist: 8 Popular Songs that Sample Classical Music

Adela Skowronski

Musicians from rap to alternative to K-Pop and beyond look to classical music for inspiration! Here are just a few creative examples.

a blue stage lit up with yellow lights as a band performs to a packed audience

Trans-Siberian Orchestra will return with heavy metal holiday tour, ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve’

Associated PressAugust 28, 2023

The heavy metal, classical music, theater production, pyrotechnics, and laser lightshow hybrid will stop in Chicago in late December.

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin