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Gordon Lightfoot, in a deep red blazer, strums an acoustic guitar and sings into a mic

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.”

The Marching Illini, the marching band for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Photo: Fumo7887)

Hannah SchillerDecember 3, 2018

Music in the Prairie State: 5 facts you didn’t know about Illinois music

Associated PressNovember 28, 2018

Days after concert, Gaza’s grand piano seized by merchant

Keegan MorrisNovember 28, 2018

Callas in Chicago: ‘Master Class’ and ‘Maria by Callas’

Silkroad’s new face: Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens

Associated PressJuly 28, 2020

Grammy-winning folk singer and instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens takes the baton from renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who founded the group two decades ago.

La Scala announces fall season as cultural life resumes

Associated PressJuly 27, 2020

On Monday, the famed opera house announced a fall program of concerts and ballets aimed as a signal of confidence that European cultural life can resume in full following the coronavirus lockdowns.

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After rescue, Gaza’s only grand piano makes public comeback

Associated PressNovember 25, 2018

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – The only grand piano in the Gaza Strip has been played in public for the first time in a decade, following a complicated international restoration effort to fix the instrument after it was nearly destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. Some 300 fans attended the performance on Sunday, staring in awed silence as Japanese and ...