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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.

WFMTOctober 8, 2021

Playlist: Classical Fire and Flames

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Photo: Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Associated PressOctober 6, 2021

Ruth Bader Ginsburg tribute required innovative donations

Associated PressOctober 2, 2021

COVID-19-delayed Chopin piano competition opens in Poland

Ryuichi Sakamoto gazes pensively at the camera

Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto dies at 71

Associated PressApril 2, 2023

Sakamoto was a pioneer in electronics music of the late 1970s.

Sergei Rachmaninoff looks over his shoulder at the camera at the piano at Villa Senar

Rachmaninoff 150: A Celebration

WFMTApril 1, 2023

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth, acclaimed musicians discuss and perform his compositions.

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After 52 Years at WFMT, Music Director Andi Lamoreaux To Retire

Keegan MorrisSeptember 29, 2021

Andi Lamoreaux will retire on October 1, 2021, a remarkable and virtually unprecedented 52 years after arriving at the station. We sat down with her to find out what the future holds.

Met returns with 1st work by a Black composer in its history

Associated PressSeptember 28, 2021

Fire Shut Up in My Bones became the first work by a Black composer in the 138-year history of the Metropolitan Opera as the company presented its first staged performance since March 2020 following a gap caused by the coronavirus.

Muti Extends With CSO, Will Stay as Music Director Through 2023

Keegan MorrisSeptember 23, 2021

The 2021-22 season was initially meant to be Muti’s final as music director, but because of the many Muti-led concerts that were canceled as a consequence of the pandemic, that date has been pushed back.

Mornings with Jan Weller