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Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra.

Grant Park Music Festival Announces Full Capacity for Entire Season

In conjunction with Chicago’s ongoing reopening, the Grant Park Music Festival will offer full-capacity seating for its entire 2021 season.

Angelica Lasala | March 31, 2017

Boston Pops Violinist Dorothy Han Returns to Alma Mater to Teach Kenwood Students About Music & More

Stephen Raskauskas | March 29, 2017

Composer Creates Music Major for Persecuted Bahá’ís in Iran Despite No Classrooms, Teachers, Piano

Michael San Gabino | March 24, 2017

VIDEO: How a Holocaust Survivor Changed a Young Musician’s Life by Donating His Violin

VIDEO | Escher Quartet performs works by Mozart, Dvořák for a WFMT Facebook Live

Keegan Morris | June 12, 2019

WFMT hosted the Escher Quartet in a Facebook Live from the Village Presbyterian Church in Northbrook ahead of their performances at the 2019 North Shore Chamber Music Festival, which begins on June 12.

Strike Up the Wind Band: Celebrating 50 Years of the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Michael San Gabino | June 6, 2019

Though Northwestern's band program dates back to 1911, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble began in 1969.

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This Classical Music-Inspired Cocktail Is A “Ravelation”

Sarah Zwinklis | March 21, 2017

If you like to accompany your favorite pieces of classical music with a cocktail, try this drink that pairs perfectly with a sonata by Ravel.

Defiant Requiem Honors Holocaust Victims, Reminds Us: “The Arts Are Critically Important”

Stephen Raskauskas | March 20, 2017

"What the Jews did at Terezín was reach for the best of mankind to help them endure the worst of mankind. This is what the arts can do. This is what the arts do do," says conductor Murry Sidlin

Composer Samuel Adams Explains How Schubert, J-Pop Inspired His First Work for the Chicago Symphony

David Polk | March 17, 2017

31-year-old composer Samuel Adams didn’t yet have specific ideas in mind when he began his three-year residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra two years ago. Rather, he developed them as he got to know members of the orchestra and music director Riccardo Muti. Eventually, he decided that he wanted to write something that would “explore every possible extreme of what ...

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