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.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, musicians union agree to 3-year contract

CSO musicians struck for two days in September 2012 and for seven weeks March and April of 2019.

Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86

Bumbry was among the winners of the 1958 Met National Council Auditions. She had a recital debut in Paris that same year and made her Paris Opéra debut in 1960.

Violinist on Russian trains soothes weary commuters

Classics, jazz, Russian folk music and children's songs all flow as Oksana glides her bow across the strings.

Folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84

“I simply write the songs about where I am and where I’m from,” Lightfoot once said. “I take situations and write poems about them.”
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