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Newberry Consort Shares Collaboration-Rich 2023-24 Season

The Chicago early music ensemble will collaborate with Baroque opera specialists, an eminent early music keyboard player, and leading chamber groups in its upcoming season.

Associated PressApril 29, 2019

Metropolitan Opera fetes Plácido Domingo golden anniversary

Keegan MorrisApril 29, 2019

CSO Contract Ratified, Strike Ends After 7 Weeks

Hannah EdgarApril 29, 2019

Behind Terezín’s Walls, the Sounds of Resistance

Playlist: Classical Drinking Songs to Ring in the New Year

Nate BeversluisDecember 29, 2020

Who says enjoying classical music has to be a sober affair? Here is some music to help you say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021.

The Vienna Philharmonic performing its customary New Year's Day Concert in a dazzlingly adorned concert hall

Waltzes in a Pandemic: How Vienna Phil Will Continue Its New Year’s Tradition

George PrestonDecember 29, 2020

It wouldn’t be New Year without the Vienna Philharmonic. But as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, what will come of the annual New Year's Concert?

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Playlist: Remembering Composers Suppressed By the Third Reich

Hannah EdgarApril 24, 2019

James Conlon's OREL Foundation documents scores of composers whose lives were taken—directly or indirectly—or otherwise irrevocably altered by the Nazis. Here are four who persisted, creating art in the face of peril.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike

CSO Musicians Call for Continued Negotiations Amid Ongoing Strike

Graham MeyerApril 24, 2019

The musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra publicly called for management to return to the table to resolve the labor dispute now in its seventh week, the longest in the orchestra’s history.

WIU professor a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music

Associated PressApril 23, 2019

CHICAGO (AP) — A music composition professor in Illinois has learned he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music . Western Illinois University notes that finalists aren’t known until after a winner is announced. A Friday statement from the school says one of its professors, James Romig, found out he’d been up for the award after Los Angeles composer Ellen Reid was ...

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff