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2024–2025 Season of Change for Chicago Opera Theater

The season is the first programmed by 2023-appointed general director Lawrence Edelson and the first following the departure of Lidiya Yankovskaya as music director.

Associated PressJune 9, 2020

The Dalai Lama to release 1st album in July

Associated PressJune 5, 2020

Dallas Opera postpones opening night from October to March

Daniel GoldbergJune 4, 2020

Playlist: Keepin’ it unreal with pioneering composer and artist Moondog

‘Music is an ephemeral art’: Conductor Eun Sun Kim on Puccini and her Lyric Debut

Keegan MorrisMarch 8, 2022

It’s been a very Puccini year for conductor Eun Sun Kim. In the span of 9 months, she'll have conducted two Toscas, two Bohèmes, and a Turandot. Here's how she continues to find the new in these beloved scores.

War silenced violin for refugee as 1.7M have fled Ukraine

Associated PressMarch 7, 2022

20-year-old Myroslava Sherbina said that, along with the clothes she wore, her violin was the one thing she took as she fled Ukraine.

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Oud Player Rahim AlHaj Channels “Hope and New Beginnings” in WFMT Livestream

Keegan MorrisJune 1, 2020

It's becoming easier and easier to be overwhelmed by all that is going on in the world today... this music may help.

Playlist: Classical Music Inspired by Flowers and Nature

Maggie RebergMay 29, 2020

Many composers have also answered the call of springtime’s riotous colors during this, the blooming season.

Jimmy Cobb, ‘Kind of Blue’ drummer for Miles Davis, dies

Associated PressMay 26, 2020

Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album, has died. His wife, Eleana Tee Cobb, announced on Facebook that her husband died Sunday at his New York City home from lung cancer. He was 91. Born in Washington, D.C., Cobb was a drummer on the “Kind of Blue” jam ...

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