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Guarneri Hall’s 2025-26 Season Mixes Beethoven, Jazz, and Buster Keaton

Highlights include the Borromeo String Quartet performing Beethoven, a celestial-themed vocal program, and a WWII commemoration concert showcasing 1940s compositions.

Adela SkowronskiJuly 14, 2023

André Watts, Groundbreaking Concert Pianist, Dies at 77

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WFMTJuly 11, 2023

Northwestern’s Music Series Returns with Chamber Music, Piano, Guitar Luminaries

Associated PressJuly 4, 2023

Grammys CEO on new AI guidelines: Music that contains AI-created elements is eligible. ‘Period.’

5 Chart-Topping Musicians You Didn’t Know Got Their Start with Classical Music

Katherine BuzardJuly 12, 2024

Laufey hopes that “an older audience finds a sound in my music that reminds them of when they were younger... and for a younger audience is that it’s introducing something new...”

Virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin’s Mastery on Display on Live From WFMT (Video)

Louise Kern-KenslerJuly 10, 2024

Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated his incredible command of the piano in a live performance on WFMT's airwaves.

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Muti ends 13 seasons with Chicago Symphony Orchestra with praise and honors — and Beethoven

Associated PressJune 29, 2023

“I belong to another period of making music, of approaching the scores, of asking for a lot of time for rehearsals, especially in opera.”

Riccardo Muti becomes Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director emeritus for life

Associated PressJune 23, 2023

The announcement was made on the stage of Orchestra Hall on Friday night after a performance of Beethoven's “Missa Solemnis,” the start of Muti's final subscription weekend as music director.

Tony-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ creator, dies at 99