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Vote: What Are Chopin’s Top 10 Works?

We want to hear your take! Help us create a definitive ranking of the Romantic composer’s greatest music.

Keegan MorrisOctober 24, 2019

Choreographer Cathy Marston and the Joffrey Ballet Take ‘Jane Eyre’ From Page To Stage

Michael San GabinoOctober 24, 2019

Syrian Artists Express Urgency and Celebrate Survival through Music

Kerry FrumkinOctober 24, 2019

Marc-André Hamelin on Chopin and the Piano’s Infinite Possibilities

Bruce Springsteen marks the return of live shows on Broadway

Associated PressJune 28, 2021

Bruce Springsteen reprises his Broadway show for a summer run, another sign of live entertainment's rebirth after a 15-month pause because of COVID-19.

Terell Johnson on Extending the ‘Great Path’ of the Chicago Phil

Keegan MorrisJune 27, 2021

Johnson, the incoming director of the Chicago Phil, reflects that he "can't stress enough how important it is to champion those voices that haven't been heard."

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Ravinia President and CEO to Step Down Following 2020 Season, His 20th

Keegan MorrisOctober 19, 2019

“I’ve decided that this milestone anniversary would be the right time to make way for someone new to shape the festival’s future,” Ravinia Festival president and CEO Welz Kauffman expressed in a press release.

22 Chicago Music and Arts Buildings To Add To Your Open House Chicago 2019 Itinerary

Keegan MorrisOctober 18, 2019

From downtown's soaring steel and glass skyscrapers to the iconic residential greystone, there are impressive, beautiful, and revolutionary buildings practically everywhere you look. Each fall, the Chicago Architecture Center celebrates the city's many architectural treasures both big and small with Open House Chicago, the two-day festival which lets opens many of these buildings for the public to explore for free!

Video | Cellist Kian Soltani Explains Why Classical Musicians Should Stay Curious

Keegan MorrisOctober 17, 2019

“I would not consider myself a composer at all,” says Kian Soltani, shortly after playing a piece of music that he composed called Persian Fire Dance. “I’m really a cellist first and foremost, but I try to be creative also.”

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff