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See Photo Highlights from WFMT’s 70th Anniversary Day of Celebration

We’re still soaring from our big day last week, when we welcomed some of Chicago’s leading artists to take part in a daylong celebration of WFMT and the music we’ve been presenting for the last 70 years!

Louise Frank | October 24, 2018

Corky Siegel: “The Future Is an Unopened Present”

Michael San Gabino | October 24, 2018

$3.5 Million Grant Launches Initiative to Diversify the Next Generation of Musicians

Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra

Associated Press | October 24, 2018

Cleveland Orchestra fires 2 musicians over sexual misconduct

Higdon opera for Philadelphia to have 3 different endings

Associated Press | February 27, 2020

The opera is a fictionalized account inspired by the theft of seven artworks from a museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

5 Questions with Marin Alsop [Video]

Keegan Morris | February 26, 2020

"I think that art needs to serve the public... not just to be comforting and familiar, but to push the envelope," declares Marin Alsop.

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Joffrey’s ‘Swan Lake’ Launches a New Season of Ballet and Music

Keegan Morris | October 20, 2018

Joffrey Ballet's artistic director, Ashley Wheater, and music director, Scott Speck, discuss "Swan Lake," Joffrey's 2018-19 season, and ballet's unique and rich creative relationship with music.

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers takes a ‘spiritual journey’

Lisa Flynn | October 19, 2018

Anne Akiko Meyers is one of today’s most in-demand violinists who keeps alive the favorites of the repertoire but also is deeply committed to the music of living composers.

Meet Missy Mazzoli, the CSO’s New Composer-in-Residence

Michael San Gabino | October 19, 2018

Missy Mazzoli is a composer who is inspired by “weird stories,” and that’s a good thing. Her fascination with “humans who support, undermine, and love each other” has paved the way for opportunities in nearly every realm of the music industry. She is one of two women composers commissioned to write an opera for the Metropolitan Opera in New York ...

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff