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Portrait of Sherezade Panthaki in black and blue gown, organza wrap over shoulders, dark forest setting

Music of the Baroque Journeys Through Time in 2024–2025 Season

Highlights include rarely-heard gems, beloved holiday concerts, and the 80th birthday celebration of Nicholas Kraemer.

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

Playlist: Classical Fire and Flames

WFMTOctober 8, 2021

The Great Chicago Fire began on October 8, 1871. Here's some music that takes inspiration from flames.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Photo: Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg tribute required innovative donations

Associated PressOctober 6, 2021

Financing new music is never an easy feat. A pandemic has only made it more difficult.

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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.”

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