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The Beatles are releasing their ‘final’ record. AI helped make it possible

Says Paul McCartney, “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would do. It gives you some sort of leeway.”

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’

Classical music hipster Mozart in glasses and a mustache

Quiz: How Hipster Is Your Taste in Classical Music?

WFMTAugust 5, 2020

Admit it, liking classical music is a little bit hipster. But how hipster is your taste in classical music?

WFMT, Ravinia Announce New Broadcast Series

Keegan MorrisAugust 3, 2020

WFMT is pleased to announce a new broadcast series in partnership with Ravinia Festival. The eight-program, limited-run series “New From the Ravinia Festival,” brings listeners new performances recorded at Ravinia — without an audience — this summer.

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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 ...