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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 MorrisJune 12, 2019

VIDEO | Escher Quartet performs works by Mozart, Dvořák for a WFMT Facebook Live

Michael San GabinoJune 6, 2019

Strike Up the Wind Band: Celebrating 50 Years of the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Luciano Pavarotti as Enzo Grimaldo in the SF Opera’s 1979 production of La Gioconda (Photo: Ron Scherl)

Associated PressJune 4, 2019

Ron Howard tells Pavarotti’s ‘bittersweet’ story in new doc

Video: Young Chicago Artists Perform Music by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns

WFMTMarch 5, 2021

Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative aims to diversify American orchestras by preparing promising young artists from underrepresented communities for careers in music.

Video: CSO Flutist, Pianist, Horn Player Share Lovely, Lesser-Known Repertoire

Keegan MorrisMarch 4, 2021

On a sunny March day, flutist Emma Gerstein, horn player Alexander Love, and pianist Winston Choi shared an upbeat recital featuring music you might not have heard before.

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Daniel Barenboim in a grey hat, stands in front of a stone wall

Barenboim’s tenure at Berlin’s Staatsoper extended to 2027

Associated PressJune 4, 2019

Conductor Daniel Barenboim is getting a five-year contract extension as general music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper, which would keep him at the opera house until 2027.

3 Fresh Musical Events for Your Weekend!

Hannah EdgarMay 31, 2019

We’re getting ready to share our Summer Music Guide (keep an eye out for it next week), but here are three events happening this weekend, each of which combine or reimagine classical music and dance, that we wanted to be sure to tell you about. The Rosina Project It’s Rossini like you’ve never heard him before. Chicago Fringe Opera teams ...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra cancels summer programming

Associated PressMay 31, 2019

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has canceled its summer programming, citing $16 million in losses over the past decade. The Washington Post reports the Thursday cancellation announcement by the orchestra comes about a month after the summer season was announced. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan approved a bill then that would give the group $3.2 million in state funding. Orchestra president ...

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