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Halloweek Arts and Music Events in Chicago

A bounty of performances, events, and parties that will have you ready to celebrate spooky season in the Second City!

Keegan MorrisAugust 16, 2019

Video: Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Ave Maria

Haley HenningAugust 15, 2019

Playlist: Aeronautic and Maritime Music for the Skies and Seas

Associated PressAugust 15, 2019

9-year-old girl sues German boys choir over gender bias

Chicago stages drive-through Wagner in underground garage

Associated PressApril 29, 2021

The production is called “Twilight: Gods" and comes a year after Lyric Opera's production of the complete Ring cycle was scuttled by the pandemic.

Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91

Associated PressApril 29, 2021

Twenty-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt worked with everyone from Sam Cooke to Steely Dan to Frank Sinatra.

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“¡En la guitarra está todo!” Eliades Ochoa, Grammy-Winning Guitarist on the Power of Cuban Music

Michael San GabinoAugust 9, 2019

"For me, the guitar doesn’t have a secret. In the guitar, you will find everything." These are the words of Eliades Ochoa, the Grammy Award-winning guitarist of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Buena Vista Social Club.

Meet the Pianist Who Is Setting Some of the Internet’s Most Hilarious Viral Videos to Music

George PrestonAugust 9, 2019

We know that music makes our lives better, but sometimes, it can make funny things even funnier! Take Charles Cornell, for instance, who is turning viral tweets and videos into songs.

Going Medieval on Twitter

Candice AgreeAugust 8, 2019

Welcome to the wonderful world of medieval manuscripts! You'll find that medieval manuscripts are not nearly as inaccessible as you might think. They are true multimedia events: for the sports lover, there are depictions of cats playing tennis. Music aficionados will find illustrations of rabbits and foxes playing viols and flutes. From the sacred to the profane, they prove without a doubt that the Dark Ages were anything but.

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