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Ella Jenkins — gray haired woman stands with the ocean to her back

Ella Jenkins at 100: A Timeline

For more than 60 years, the “First Lady of Children’s Folk Music” has used music to inspire and teach children around the world.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike

Graham MeyerApril 24, 2019

CSO Musicians Call for Continued Negotiations Amid Ongoing Strike

Associated PressApril 23, 2019

WIU professor a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music

Keegan MorrisApril 22, 2019

‘I Like to Take on Projects That Terrify Me’: Jake Heggie on Adapting ‘Moby-Dick’ into an Opera

Video: Avalon String Quartet Honors Beethoven 250 with a Dynamic Performance

Keegan MorrisDecember 16, 2020

On the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, the Avalon String Quartet gave a deft and passionate performance of one of Beethoven's finest chamber works.

portrait of Beethoven with a 10 and text "top ten" superimposed

Beethoven’s Top 10 Works

WFMTDecember 16, 2020

WFMT looks back on the eminent composer's most important works. Here is our ranking of Beethoven's top 10 most important compositions.

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Notre-Dame de Paris from the organ console (Photo: Nathan Laube)

“It’s beauty at an inexpressible level” — Organist Nathan Laube reflects on Notre-Dame de Paris and its magnificent organ

Michael San GabinoApril 16, 2019

Notre-Dame de Paris is a space — a part of our shared cultural heritage — that belongs to everybody – not only for Christians, but also for musicians, artists, poets, historians, lovers of beauty – everybody.

Catastrophic fire engulfs Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Associated PressApril 15, 2019

PARIS (AP) — A massive fire engulfed the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of the French capital Monday, toppling its spire and sending thick plumes of smoke high into the blue sky as tourists and Parisians watched in horror from the streets below. A spokesman said the entire wooden frame of the cathedral would likely come down, ...

Pet Project: Musician Creates a Playlist for Shelter Animals

Associated PressApril 11, 2019

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s music director has gone to the dogs. And the cats.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff