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Quiz: Composer ABCs

Here’s a quick pop quiz; answer our 26 alphabetical questions to see if you know your composer ABCs!

Stephen Raskauskas | November 15, 2017

Hear Kirill Gerstein Play Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 the Way Tchaikovsky Intended

Becky Nystedt | November 8, 2017

Video | Try a Virtual Sound Therapy Session to Block Out the Noise in Your Life

Stephen Raskauskas | November 3, 2017

VIDEO | Watch Mozart’s Requiem With a Día de Los Muertos Twist

Video: Pianist Lucas Krupinski Plays Schubert, Chopin, Ravel

Keegan Morris | October 9, 2019

Award-winning pianist Lucas Krupinski is no stranger to the music of Chopin. So it was no surprise when the young Polish pianist gave a sensitive, dynamic performance of a sensitive, dynamic performance of the esteemed Romantic composer's Ballade No. 4.

13 Chicago Area Arts and Music Events for a Frightening and Fun Halloween

Keegan Morris | October 8, 2019

Whether you’re looking for a hardcore horror flick or a family-friendly outing, this list has you covered for some of the Chicago area’s Halloween highlights!

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Through a Farce Darkly: How a Glinka Overture Became the Theme Song for the Sitcom ‘Mom’

Candice Agree | October 27, 2017

Let’s pretend. Let’s pretend that one of the classical world’s most famous opera overtures is heard by some 12 million people, every week, on TV. More amazingly, it’s neither on a public television station nor the opening music for a roundtable news program. Instead, in this fantasy world it’s in a half-hour situation comedy created by the same man who’s brought to TV Big Bang Theory, Two and Half Men, Dharma and Greg, Cybil, Mike and Molly, and Young Sheldon, to name a few.

Hear the Timeless Sound of Yma Sumac, the Soprano Called “a Descendant of the Last of the Incan Kings”

Galilee Abdullah | October 26, 2017

Imagine you’re seated in Royal Albert Hall in London. You look to the stage and see a woman in a glamorous, feathered skirt. Her headpiece crowns her like royalty, and her neck drips with jewels that glow in the dim lights of the hall. When she opens her mouth, you wonder, “Is that a canary?” But you are witnessing none other than soprano Yma Sumac.

Inside the Score: Adolphe Adam’s Giselle

Stephen Raskauskas | October 25, 2017

Joffrey's Scott Speck, who co-authored Classical Music for Dummies, explains how music helps to tell the stories you see on stage.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff