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Philadelphia Orchestra’s home renamed Marian Anderson Hall as Verizon name comes off

Marian Anderson, an acclaimed and boundary-breaking Black contralto, was born in Philadelphia in 1897.

Teddy Abrams and Jim James classical crosover

Daniel GoldbergJanuary 23, 2020

Playlist: Dispelling the Stigma of the Classical Crossover

Keegan MorrisJanuary 23, 2020

Video: Piano Works of Beethoven, Liszt, and Debussy by Christopher Goodpasture

Associated PressJanuary 22, 2020

Detroit orchestra names Jader Bignamini next music director

COVID-19-delayed Chopin piano competition opens in Poland

Associated PressOctober 2, 2021

The competition was scheduled for the fall of 2020, but authorities put the popular event off due to social distancing rules.

Enrique Mazzola on Returning to the Stage, Taking the Reins at Lyric

George PrestonSeptember 30, 2021

Mazzola speaks with WFMT general manager George Preston about returning to live performance, Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, and what he loves most about being a Chicagoan.

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MLK, Mahler, Making Community with the Chicago Sinfonietta

Becky NystedtJanuary 16, 2020

The Chicago Sinfonietta's longstanding mission of bringing communities and people together through the symphonic experience takes center stage with the Sinfonietta’s annual tribute concert to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Drinking, Dueling, and a Dragon? Huzzah!

Keegan MorrisJanuary 16, 2020

It's Baroque opera, minus the sobriety. The serious operas of Handel and Gluck get the parody treatment in this excerpt from the 1737 opera The Dragon of Wantley performed by Haymarket Opera Company!

Video: Hear a Recital of Dynamic Romantic-Era Violin Music

Keegan MorrisJanuary 15, 2020

On January 15, violinist Stephen Kim and pianist Ilya Friedberg shared the Chicago Cultural Center stage for a concert of passionate, dynamic music by two Romantic composers: Ernest Chausson and Johannes Brahms.

WFMT’s fifth annual "Bach to School" membership drive