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Marin Alsop-led Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Names Winners

The recipient joins a respected roster of fellowship winners, including Karina Canellakis, Mei-Ann Chen, Jeri Lynne Johnson, and Valentina Peleggi.

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

Prokofiev, Hahn, Lang Lang Headline CSO’s 2021-22 Return To Stage

Keegan MorrisJuly 13, 2021

The CSO announces an array of concerts from September to January.

When Worlds Collided: Classical Music Inspired by the Beautiful Game

Adela Skowronski

With this year’s Euro Cup Finals nearly upon us, chants and songs are breathing life into the stadiums. Yet as it turns out, the relationship between music and football extends way beyond chants and national anthems.

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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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