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Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent

A new documentary charts the rise of Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin from a school stage to chief conductor at one of the world’s great opera houses.

Andi Lamoreaux | June 23, 2017

6 Songs to Send You “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”

Stephen Raskauskas | June 22, 2017

VIDEO: Learn How to Make Pasta alla Norma With ‘Norma’ Conductor Riccardo Frizza

Angelica Lasala | June 16, 2017

Why the Beats of Bomba and Plena are as Essential to Puerto Rican Culture as Beans and Rice

From Cigar Box to Strad: Vadim Gluzman’s Lifetime of Being Chosen by the Violin

Kylie Harwell | July 29, 2019

In between back-to-back lessons for around 30 students at his alma mater, Keshet Eilon International Music Center in Israel, Vadim Gluzman has been preparing for his upcoming Grant Park Music Festival performances of Bernstein’s Serenade on August 2nd and 3rd. These concerts mark Gluzman’s return to Chicago after weeks of travel, and before yet another period of touring around ...

Grant Park Music Festival’s “Pastoral Picnic in White” in Pictures

Michael San Gabino | July 29, 2019

A flurry of white dresses and shirts, white tablecloths and candelabras sprinkled the Great Lawn in Millennium Park as patrons celebrated the Grant Park Music Festival’s annual “Pastoral Picnic in White” on Saturday, July 27. Originally inspired by a 1988 gathering at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, the Grant Park Music Festival joins thousands of similar “Dinners in White” ...

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