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Classical Countdown: New Year’s Eve Music to Strike the Perfect Note at Midnight

Curated celebratory classical music, and the exact second to press play so the music crescendos with the changing of the New Year.

Adela SkowronskiNovember 12, 2021

Verismo Meets Lyrical Flow: Chicago Composer Creates Opera from Classic Nas Track

Associated PressNovember 12, 2021

Emilie Kouatchou Makes ‘Phantom’ History On Broadway

Keegan MorrisOctober 30, 2021

Video: From the Composer’s Studio: A Conversation with Missy Mazzoli & Jessie Montgomery

A group of musicians pose around a drumset

Celebrating Asian American Heritage in Chicago: 13 Events for May!

Adela SkowronskiMay 1, 2023

The umbrella of Asian American Pacific Islander — or AAPI — heritage covers a vast range of cultures, making for a huge variety in the types of events hosted all around the city.

Video Premiere: Exciting Brass Ensemble The Westerlies Plays ‘This is Water’

Keegan MorrisApril 28, 2023

How a speech by David Foster Wallace inspired a new triptych for brass quartet.

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Fleming, Nézet-Séguin Release Recording on Climate Change

Associated PressOctober 27, 2021

Renée Fleming and conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin brainstormed on songs they could perform together at a piano.

Steve Martin Inducts WFMT Favorite Jens Kruger Into American Banjo Hall of Fame

Daniel GoldbergOctober 23, 2021

Known for his inventive, hard-to-categorize musical style of composition and performance, banjoist Jens Kruger has been inducted into the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame.

Legendary Conductor Bernard Haitink Has Died, Age 92

WFMTOctober 21, 2021

Haitink took the podium at many of the premiere concert halls in the world and forged, among others, a creative partnership with the CSO, where he served as principal conductor from 2006 to 2010.

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