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Vivaldi Opera Gets Premiere in Ferrara Nearly 300 Years Late

The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara are making their peace with Antonio Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city’s archbishop effectively canceled the staging of one of his operas.

Aaron Copland appeared on "John Callaway Interviews" on WTTW on September 14, 1981.

Keegan Morris | November 14, 2018

VIDEO | Aaron Copland appears on WTTW’s “John Callaway Interviews” in 1981

Keegan Morris | November 12, 2018

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic to Make Ravinia Festival Debut in July 2019

brahms tchaikovsky -- classical music feuds

Hannah Edgar | November 7, 2018

6 of the Most Famous Classical Music Feuds Between Composers

Australian composer Brett Dean hospitalized with coronavirus

Associated Press | March 6, 2020

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Musician and composer Brett Dean has been hospitalized in Australia with the new coronavirus. British agent Intermusica says the violist and conductor is in isolation in an Adelaide hospital with the COVID-19 illness. He was to perform with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the Adelaide Festival on Saturday. Festival executive director Rob Brookman says Dean canceled ...

Harris Theater President and CEO Patricia Barretto Has Died at Age 45

WFMT | March 5, 2020

Patricia Barretto, president and CEO of Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance, has died following a 4-year battle with breast cancer. She was 45. She passed away Tuesday, March 3, 2020, with her husband, Sheldon, their son, David, her parents, William and Fatima Mcrae, and close friends at her side. Barretto was born in Mumbai and completed a BA in ...

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In His Return, Daniel Barenboim Reflects on What Chicago Has Meant to His Career

Keegan Morris | November 5, 2018

“In 1970, I was many things, but not an experienced conductor,” admitted Daniel Barenboim, acknowledging that being selected to conduct the CSO at that time was therefore "an event of shattering importance."

Aretha Franklin doc ‘Amazing Grace’ to finally see the light

Associated Press | November 5, 2018

Sydney Pollack shot most of the footage that documented Franklin's performance at a Los Angeles Baptist church in January 1972.

8 US Presidents You Didn’t Know Were Musicians

Hannah Edgar | November 5, 2018

Did you know that some of our nation’s leaders past and present could hold their own at a conductor’s podium? Regardless of their political party, many presidents from Jefferson to Nixon to Obama might all agree on one thing: music is important in our lives.

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