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Trans-Siberian Orchestra will return with heavy metal holiday tour, ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve’

The heavy metal, classical music, theater production, pyrotechnics, and laser lightshow hybrid will stop in Chicago in late December.

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

Montreal Symphony Orchestra Names Next Music Director

WFMTJanuary 8, 2021

Rafael Payare has been announced as the next music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He will begin his tenure in the 2022-23 season

Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions

Associated PressJanuary 5, 2021

The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.

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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 ...

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