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Playlist: The Most Nostalgic Classical Music

Beloved music that is sure to conjure up fond, warm memories.

George PrestonAugust 9, 2019

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

Candice AgreeAugust 8, 2019

Going Medieval on Twitter

Associated PressAugust 7, 2019

Rhiannon Giddens, Francis Johnson to get Americana award

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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Grant Park Music Festival’s “Pastoral Picnic in White” in Pictures

Michael San GabinoJuly 29, 2019

A flurry of white dresses and shirts, white tablecloths and candelabras sprinkled the Great Lawn in Millennium Park as patrons celebrated the Grant Park Music Festival’s annual “Pastoral Picnic in White” on Saturday, July 27. Originally inspired by a 1988 gathering at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, the Grant Park Music Festival joins thousands of similar “Dinners in White” ...

the mcgill brothers pose in front of the strikingly modern pritzker pavilion in millennium park

Video: The McGill Brothers Return Home for Grant Park Music Festival Debut

Keegan MorrisJuly 26, 2019

The Chicago-born brothers reflect on their first forays into music, their ongoing support of young arts organizations, and their debut performances at their hometown Grant Park Music Festival.

Tour the Glyndebourne gardens, where music meets nature

Michael San GabinoJuly 24, 2019

Glyndebourne, located in the England countryside, declares that it produces “no ordinary opera,” and one could certainly use a similar mantra for its stately, stunning gardens. Musicians and patrons alike gain inspiration from the visual splendor of Glyndebourne. And according to Glyndebourne’s head gardener Kevin Martin, the inspiration is mutual. “I get inspiration from the music but also from the ...

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