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Nighttime at the Grant Park Music Festival as the public gazes upon the striking Pritzker Pavilion, lit in multicolor and with the Grant Park Orchestra onstage. The skyline in the background

Grant Park Music Festival 2025 Season: Guerrero Era Begins

Marking the free classical music festival’s first season led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero.

Associated PressJanuary 12, 2022

Pope slips out of Vatican to visit record shop, gets CD

Keegan MorrisJanuary 11, 2022

Grant Park Music Festival Announces Full 2022 Season

Associated PressJanuary 5, 2022

Grammys Postpone Ceremony, Citing Omicron Variant Risks

Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike

Associated PressJune 12, 2023

Tony Awards history was made when J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell became the first nonbinary people to win Tonys for acting.

Lin-Manuel Miranda launches R.I.S.E. Network to improve diversity on Broadway

Associated PressJune 9, 2023

A 2021 report on diversity in Broadway teams showed that 100% of general managers and 94% of the producers were white. White actors were cast in 80% of the lead roles in musicals and 90% of the lead roles in plays.

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Playlist: 10 Underrated Songs to Remember Stephen Sondheim

Adela SkowronskiDecember 31, 2021

Labels really don’t work with Sondheim, who had one foot in the Golden Age and the other in what came next.

Vivaldi Opera Gets Premiere in Ferrara Nearly 300 Years Late

Associated PressDecember 31, 2021

The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara are making their peace with Antonio Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city's archbishop effectively canceled the staging of one of his operas.

In Their Own Words: Inspiring Quotes From Classical Artists, Members of the Arts Community, and Colleagues Who Died in 2021

Candice AgreeDecember 29, 2021

As we reflect on the year gone by, Classical WFMT salutes the contributions of members of the arts community who died this past year.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff