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Black and white photo: Lois Baum sits at the console in a radio control room.

Key WFMT Producer, Host, Programmer Lois Baum Has Died, 87

Lois Baum’s long and illustrious time with WFMT began in 1964.

Associated PressJanuary 30, 2019

Philadelphia Orchestra to tour China to celebrate diplomacy

Associated PressJanuary 30, 2019

Dutoit to conduct French orchestra after sexual abuse claims

Riccardo Muti conducts Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 9/28/07,

Keegan MorrisJanuary 29, 2019

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Announces ’19-20 Season

Quiz: What American Composer Are You?

WFMTSeptember 7, 2020

Take this quiz to find out which dean of American music you're most like! Are you sparse and minimal like Philip Glass? Or do you prefer the sis-boom-bah John Philip Sousa? Do you prefer Samuel Barber's sonic landscapes of America, or Scott Joplin's Ragtime portraits of American life?

Slow music: Chord change in Germany of 639-year organ piece

Associated PressSeptember 5, 2020

Hundreds of fans attended a special kind of musical happening at a church in Germany: a chord change in an organ piece that is supposed to last for an entirety of 639 years.

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WFMT Welcomes George Preston as Vice President and General Manager

WFMTJanuary 22, 2019

WFMT has a new Vice President and General Manager, but it is someone you may recognize! George Preston, who will begin in this position March 1, 2019, returns to WFMT, where he served as the afternoon drive host from 2009 to 2013, and hosted and produced the internationally syndicated Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcasts. Sandra Cordova Micek, CEO of Window ...