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a man in a jean jacket, trucket hat, and white shirt — Tommy Prine — strums a guitar and sings into a microphone onstage

Tommy Prine doesn’t dodge father’s legacy, makes his own way in compelling debut

Tommy Prine never set out to be a singer-songwriter, but it proved to be a “saving grace” after losing his father, John Prine.

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’

Marilyn Rea Beyer, new ‘Midnight Special’ host, comes full circle

Keegan MorrisJuly 31, 2020

Beyer talks to WFMT about her introduction to folk music at Chicago's Symphony Center, formative memories of Steve Goodman and Studs Terkel, and what to expect as she takes the reins of 'The Midnight Special.'

Through the Eyes of Women: Protests and Racial Justice in the Studs Terkel Radio Archive

Bella LevaviJuly 31, 2020

Our picture of the past is often incomplete: though long on the frontlines in the fight for racial justice, women's stories have often been left out of history. Here are nine conversations with women to enrich our understanding.

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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 ...

Plácido Domingo feted at Met Opera for his 50th anniversary