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Daniil Trifonov smiles while under a sunlit tree

CSO Announces 2024–25 Season and New Artist-In-Residence

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced its 2024–2025 season, a full year of concerts in its mainstage subscription series, as well as chamber, solo, family, and other programming.

Associated PressJanuary 21, 2020

U of I professor wins fellowship for study of violin in UK

classical music orchestra onstage with Looney Tunes scene projected in background

Michael San GabinoJanuary 17, 2020

Playlist: Classical-Inspired Favorites from the Looney Tunes

Becky NystedtJanuary 16, 2020

MLK, Mahler, Making Community with the Chicago Sinfonietta

Cleveland Orchestra to get $50M grant from Mandel Foundation

Associated PressSeptember 30, 2021

The grant amounts to the largest gift in the orchestra's 103-year history.

After 52 Years at WFMT, Music Director Andi Lamoreaux To Retire

Keegan MorrisSeptember 29, 2021

Andi Lamoreaux will retire on October 1, 2021, a remarkable and virtually unprecedented 52 years after arriving at the station. We sat down with her to find out what the future holds.

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Sharon Isbin walks down a cobblestone road with a guitar case

Sharon Isbin Revisits Spain, Italy, and Her Accidental Beginnings in Guitar

WFMTJanuary 13, 2020

A self-described “science kid,” a simple miscommunication prompted Sharon Isbin to take up the guitar in her youth.

Video: Some Sublime Schubert from Duo Tal & Groethuysen

Keegan MorrisJanuary 10, 2020

Ahead of the esteemed duo's performance at UChicago Presents, Tal & Groethuysen, who first joined forces in 1985, visited WFMT for an Impromptu of piano four-hands music by Mozart, Schubert, Louis Théodore Gouvy.

Anna Moffo: 4 Videos that Spotlight the Brilliance of ‘La Bellissima’

Louise FrankJanuary 8, 2020

Writing for The New York Times following her death in 2006, Anthony Tommasini explained that Anna Moffo “was beloved for her rosy voice, dramatic vulnerability and exceptional beauty.”

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