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Music of the Baroque Announces 2026-27 Season

The season features pianist Dame Imogene Cooper’s final Chicago performance and a collaboration with Concert Theater Works.

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Katherine BuzardAugust 5, 2025

Swan Songs: Classical Music Inspired by Swans
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Keegan MorrisAugust 5, 2025

New Releases Aug. 5: Bach, Coleridge-Taylor, Hovhaness
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Keegan MorrisAugust 4, 2025

Chicago Sinfonietta’s 2025-26 Season: Ignite

New Releases Oct. 28: A Potpourri of Folk and Classical
Adela SkowronskiOctober 28, 2025
Big names across the classical and folk music worlds have released a number of entertaining albums to lighten up the shorter, fall days.

American Takes Top Prize at International Chopin Piano Competition
Adela SkowronskiOctober 28, 2025
Eric Lu from Massachusetts is the first American pianist to win the award since Garrick Ohlsson in 1970.

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Newberry Consort Announces 2025-26 Season, “Metamorphosis”
Keegan MorrisJuly 30, 2025
The respected Chicago early music ensemble will present four programs between October 2025 and May 2026.
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New Releases Jul. 29: Sax Phenom Jess Gillam & Shakespeare
Keegan MorrisJuly 29, 2025
A highly varied exploration of classical, folk, and contemporary in saxophonist Jess Gillam's PRISM, Vol. 2, and a survey of 16th-century music written for Shakespeare's plays.
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
Associated PressJuly 28, 2025
His songs included "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," "The Old Dope Peddler" (set to a tune reminiscent of "The Old Lamplighter"), "Be Prepared" (in which he mocked the Boy Scouts) and "The Vatican Rag."
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