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WFMT and CSO Partner for New Series: From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years

Today, WFMT and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announce the launch of an exciting new broadcast and streaming series.

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Associated Press | September 5, 2020

Slow music: Chord change in Germany of 639-year organ piece

Keegan Morris | September 2, 2020

COT Pivots to Digital, Expands Season

Associated Press | September 1, 2020

Composing for flamingos: Duo pens score for nature special

Quiz | What American Composer Are You?

WFMT | September 7, 2020
Take this quiz to find out which dean of American music you're most like! Are you sparse and minimal like Philip Glass? Or do you prefer the sis-boom-bah John Philip Sousa? Do you prefer Samuel Barber's sonic landscapes of America, or Scott Joplin's Ragtime portraits of American life?

Slow music: Chord change in Germany of 639-year organ piece

Associated Press | September 5, 2020
Hundreds of fans attended a special kind of musical happening at a church in Germany: a chord change in an organ piece that is supposed to last for an entirety of 639 years.

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With ‘Joker,’ composer Hildur Guðnadóttir could make history

Meet Lina González-Granados, the CSO’s New Solti Conducting Apprentice

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Anniversaries of 19th Amendment, Beethoven, Perlman to be celebrated in Ravinia’s 2020 CSO Residency

Choreographer Cathy Marston and the Joffrey Ballet take Jane Eyre from page to stage

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Watch Third Coast Percussion Perform Mesmeric Music by Devonté Hynes

Keegan Morris | August 28, 2020
This Thursday, August 27, WFMT cohosted a livestream with Chicago’s own Third Coast Percussion. The Grammy-winning ensemble performed music by Devonté Hynes from their new album, Fields, in a program that also included rapturous dance videos with choreography by Rena Butler of Hubbard Street Dance Group and directed by Quinn Wharton. We hope you enjoy this recording of the performance!

Refuge from Silence: COT, Refugee Orchestra Return to Live Stage

Christian Thorsberg | August 26, 2020
A collaborative performance with Chicago Opera Theater, the Refugee Orchestra Project, and conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya seeks to express the importance of refugee populations in American music and around the world.
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Thursday: Third Coast Percussion Plays Music of Devonté Hynes in WFMT Livestream

Keegan Morris | August 25, 2020
Join us on WFMT's Facebook Page Thursday at 7:30 pm for a free livestream with Third Coast Percussion, Devonté Hynes, and a video featuring choreography by Rena Butler.
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