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5 Questions with Sidney P. Jackson, Jr.

The new President of Chicago Sinfonietta reflects on his move to the city and his visions for the future.

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WFMTJune 4, 2025

Announcing: WFMT’s Live Grant Park Music Festival 2025 Concerts

Keegan MorrisJune 3, 2025

CSO Names New Chorus Director

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Keegan MorrisJune 3, 2025

New Releases Jun. 3: Organ, Mandolin, Hungarian Sounds, Tchaikovsky

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New Releases Aug. 12: Birds and Waves

Keegan MorrisAugust 12, 2025

Mandolin music of Italy, Iberia, and the Black Sea in Song of the Birds, and orchestral music by women composers in Breaking Waves. And albums focusing on works by Florence Price, Valentin Silvestrov, and Georg Philipp Telemann.

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Grant Park Chorus Director Christopher Bell on the Epic, Sweeping ‘Carmina Burana’

Keegan MorrisAugust 11, 2025

It’s not very hard to sing, but it is hard to sing well. So getting the singers to engage with it can be part of the challenge.

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New Releases May 27: Harp, Oboe, Rachmaninoff

Keegan MorrisMay 27, 2025

Releases this week cast light on an unheralded English woman composer (Madeleine Dring) in works for oboe, selections for harp by Marcel Tournier, plus a tribute to a great 20th century singer, mixed cello repertoire, and albums exploring the musical ranges of Rachmaninoff and Mendelssohn.