Stories
From The Nutcracker to Don Quixote be the first to learn about what the Joffrey Ballet’s next season has in store!
Angelica Lasala | March 15, 2017
Michael San Gabino | March 13, 2017
Arielle Kaye | May 20, 2019
Is your hearing pitch-perfect? Play each of the videos below and see if you can identify the correct pitch.
Keegan Morris | May 17, 2019
Andrew Patner, WFMT’s late critic-at-large and music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, passed away in 2015, but his characteristic wit and wisdom live on in his book, A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti.
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Chance the Rapper Gives $1 Million for Arts Ed in Chicago Public Schools, Goal to Raise $215 Million
Michael San Gabino | March 7, 2017
Chance stated: "I'm committed to helping Chicago's children having quality learning experiences, experiences that include the arts."
Stephen Raskauskas | March 3, 2017
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are some of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable classical works today. The four concertos – Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter – were first published in 1725 in a larger collection of concertos called The Contest Between Harmony and Invention.
Stephen Raskauskas | March 1, 2017
The majority of Chopin’s surviving works are for the piano. Surprisingly, however, the composer only left us with two piano concertos and a handful of other works for piano and orchestra. Polish-Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, who recorded Chopin: Works for Piano and Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, reflected on these works and why Chopin didn’t write more of them. Expanding the ...