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A view of the empty auditorium of Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Open House Chicago 2023: 16 Spectacular Sites for Art and Music Lovers

Each year, Chicago’s most architecturally inclined residents crisscross the city to check out some of the city’s most intriguing and vaunted buildings!

Maggie RebergJuly 18, 2019

Playlist: The Greats of British Classical Music

Associated PressJuly 18, 2019

Sally Field, ‘Sesame Street’ to receive Kennedy Center award

Larry JohnsonJuly 16, 2019

Over the Moon for “Moon River”

Recording Registry adds albums by Janet Jackson, Nas

Associated PressMarch 24, 2021

Louis Armstrong's jazzy "When the Saints Go Marching In" is another of the 25 recordings being inducted to the National Recording Registry.

Bach Birthday Bash!

Keegan MorrisMarch 21, 2021

All day long, tune in to hear WFMT's celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born on this date in 1685.

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Playlist: 10 Piano Concertos You Need to Know But Probably Don’t

Lisa FlynnJuly 16, 2019

You voted on your 10 favorite piano concertos and we aired them on WFMT along with 10 piano concertos that might be less familiar to you. Which of the concertos below are discoveries to you? Which of your favorites would you add to the list?

Playlist: A Big Parade of 76 Trombone Pieces

Haley HenningJuly 12, 2019

When you think of the trombone, what comes to mind? A particular classical work, or more likely, “Seventy-Six Trombones” leading a big parade? Although The Music Man brings the instrument into the spotlight in Meredith Willson’s hallmark song, the musical leaves a lot of room to explore the wide world of trombone repertoire.

David Bromberg fears huge violin collection must be split up

Associated PressJuly 11, 2019

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — David Bromberg, a master of stringed-instrument Americana, says a deal to sell his massive collection of historic violins to the Library of Congress has fallen through. The singer-songwriter and session musician has compiled a collection of 263 historic American violins over the years, and at 73, was hoping to sell it intact for $1.7 million as ...

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