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Iconic Chicago buildings — including the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and the Hancock Center — with happy, multicolored tulips in the foreground

Playlist: Feel-Good Classical Music

From the jubilant to the blissful and everything in between, this longform playlist has something for anyone looking for a classical music mood booster.

Associated PressSeptember 16, 2022

‘The Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway next year

Keegan MorrisSeptember 16, 2022

In 35th Season, Chicago Sinfonietta Looks At What’s ‘Next’

classical music for walking: a beautiful path

Fatima DabbahSeptember 15, 2022

Playlist: Classical Music for Long Walks

Tzu-Tsen Wu poses holding a ruan, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument resembling a banjo

Chicago Music and Arts Events for Lunar New Year

Keegan MorrisFebruary 7, 2024

In Chicago, festivities abound in the weeks surrounding the dawning Year of the Dragon.

Stravinsky Top 10: blue portrait of Stravinsky with a 10 and text "top ten" superimposed

Vote for Stravinsky’s Top 10 Works

WFMTFebruary 5, 2024

We want to hear your take! Help us create a definitive ranking of the iconoclastic 20th-century composer’s greatest music.

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Queen Elizabeth II gives a speech in 2015

Queen Elizabeth II dead after 70 years on the throne

Associated PressSeptember 8, 2022

A link to the almost-vanished generation that fought World War II, she was the only monarch most Britons have ever known, and her name defines an age: the modern Elizabethan Era.

Queen Elizabeth II under medical care amid health fears