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Quiz: Choose Your Valentine’s Day Plans and We’ll Find Your Perfect Classical Playlist

You’re SURE your lover will be over the moon about their amazing Valentine’s date. But have you remembered to plan the music?

Keegan Morris | February 13, 2019

Playlist: Hate Valentine’s Day? This Is the Classical Music for You!

Keegan Morris | February 13, 2019

Playlist: Love Valentine’s Day? This Is the Classical Music for You!

Keegan Morris | February 13, 2019

‘My dream is for Chicago to be at the forefront of new opera’: Meet Ashley Magnus, COT’s New General Director

John Prine Dies, Rich Warren Pays Tribute

Rich Warren | April 8, 2020

John Prine, who began his career in Chicago, exhibited the ability to wring every possible meaning from a word to expose the joy, sorrow, frailty, and strength of the human condition.

Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Slatkin, Vincent Price Team Up for an Orchestral Take on ‘The Raven’

Keegan Morris | April 8, 2020

As an outsized figure in literature and poetry, Poe has inspired composers like Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Philip Glass, and composer-conductor Leonard Slatkin, who set Poe's "The Raven" to music in 1971.

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