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Grammys Postpone Ceremony, Citing Omicron Variant Risks

The upcoming Grammy Awards have been postponed due to what organizers called “too many risks” due to the omicron variant. The ceremony had been scheduled for Jan. 31st in Los Angeles with a live audience and performances.

The Marching Illini, the marching band for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Photo: Fumo7887)

Hannah Schiller | December 3, 2018

Music in the Prairie State: 5 facts you didn’t know about Illinois music

Associated Press | November 28, 2018

Days after concert, Gaza’s grand piano seized by merchant

Keegan Morris | November 28, 2018

Callas in Chicago: ‘Master Class’ and ‘Maria by Callas’

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen dies at 81

Associated Press | March 13, 2020

Wuorinen won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music for 'Time’s Encomium,' a four-channel work for synthesized sound that became the first electronic composition to earn the honor.

Calculating Chopin: WFMT’s New Digital Series Demystifies Math and Music

Keegan Morris | March 11, 2020

“Contrary to popular myth," Dr. Eugenia Cheng explains, "math is not just about numbers, but about patterns, structures, and logic, and patterns and structures also pervade classical music.”

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After rescue, Gaza’s only grand piano makes public comeback

Associated Press | November 25, 2018

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – The only grand piano in the Gaza Strip has been played in public for the first time in a decade, following a complicated international restoration effort to fix the instrument after it was nearly destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. Some 300 fans attended the performance on Sunday, staring in awed silence as Japanese and ...