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Riccardo Muti Conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians get 3% annual raises in 3-year labor contract

Music director emeritus for life Riccardo Muti will lead the CSO season-opening concert September 21 at Orchestra Hall.

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

Delayed Kennedy Center Honors to be rescheduled for mid-May

Associated PressJanuary 14, 2021

The honorees are country music legend Garth Brooks, dancer and actress Debbie Allen, violin virtuoso Midori, folk music icon Joan Baez and actor Dick Van Dyke.

The Modern Musical Dynasty: Kanneh-Mason Family Performs Saint-Saëns, Bob Marley

Lisa FlynnJanuary 14, 2021

There have been many musical dynasties throughout history – think of the Bach and Strauss families. Today, we have a new dynasty in the making with the Kanneh-Masons: seven brothers and sisters, all of whom play either violin, piano, or cello.

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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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