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Third Coast Baroque: 11 musicians in a sunlit red brick hallway; some with their instruments including violins, cello, theorbo, and charango.

Third Coast Baroque Announces Closure

The Chicago early-music ensemble faced diminishing audience sizes and reduced grant funding possibilities after years of concert disruptions by COVID-19.

women and men protesting for voting rights suffrage 1916 chicago

Andi LamoreauxNovember 13, 2019

19th Amendment, Beethoven, Perlman To Be Celebrated in Ravinia’s 2020 CSO Residency

George PrestonNovember 12, 2019

Playlist: Pacifism in Classical Music

Matt DeStefanoNovember 11, 2019

The Film Score: Music for Veterans Day

Quiz: Could You Be Mahler’s BFF?

Adela SkowronskiJuly 6, 2021

Answer a few questions about Gustav Mahler's life and we'll tell you whether you could be best buds!

From WTTW: 2021 Chicago Summer Festival Guide

WFMTJuly 6, 2021

As Chicago continues its emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic, residents can look forward to a relatively normal summer.

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Video: Pianist Hilda Huang Plays Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven at the Chicago Cultural Center

Keegan MorrisNovember 6, 2019

Fresh off a performance as the collaborative pianist to clarinetist Sam Boutris during last week's Dame Myra Hess Concert, Hilda Huang performed a scintillating program of works by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven

Met Opera to hold celebration of Jessye Norman on Nov. 24

Associated PressNovember 6, 2019

Latonia Moore, Eric Owens, Lise Davidsen, J'Nai Bridges, and Leah Hawkins are scheduled to perform, the company said Wednesday, along with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Christians want Belgian opera’s naked Joan of Arc banned

Associated PressOctober 30, 2019

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Christian association is trying to prevent Brussels opera house La Monnaie from staging a production of Arthur Honegger’s oratorio “Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher,” or “Joan of Arc at the Stake,” in which the heroine appears dressed in men’s clothes and, at one point, naked. The Pro Europa Christiana Federation wants the show orchestrated by Italian director ...

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