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La Scala announces 2021-22 season, with hope of fewer limits

Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala has announced a 2021-22 season of 13 operas, seven ballets and numerous concerts as Italy’s most important theater looks toward a gradual removal of pandemic restrictions.

Mary Mazurek | February 15, 2017

This is What It’s Like to Attend the Grammy Awards

Stephen Raskauskas | February 14, 2017

VIDEO | Why Stewart Copeland, Police Founding Member/Drummer, Has Turned to Composing Opera

Stephen Raskauskas | February 13, 2017

‘Single Ladies’ Set to Shostakovich Proves That Beyoncé Can Slay All Day, Even to Classical Music

Listen: Late critic Andrew Patner celebrated during panel featuring Riccardo Muti and Alex Ross

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.

Studs Terkel Turns 107, His Archive Turns 1

Matthew Byrd | May 16, 2019

Studs Terkel, the gregarious, cigar-chomping oral historian, used to say of his birth that, “when the Titanic went down, I came up.”

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‘The Black Composer Speaks’ Celebrates 3 Generations of Composers in 1 Night on Chicago’s South Side

Elizabeth Peterson | February 8, 2017

Composer and cellist Tomeka Reid presents the world premiere of "Present Awareness" alongside the works of Alvin Singleton, Olly Wilson, and Kahil El’ Zabar.

Be the First to Know Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2017-18 Line-Up of Operas, Concerts, and More

Andi Lamoreaux | February 7, 2017

A new production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, in partnership with the Joffrey Ballet, and the second installment of Wagner’s Ring, will highlight the 2017-2018 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Frederick Douglass Owned a Copy of a Stradivarius, His Grandson Played for Two Presidents

Stephen Raskauskas | February 2, 2017

Frederick Douglass wasn’t just an abolitionist leader, author, and statesman – he was also a music lover. He wrote passionately about the importance of music in communities of enslaved people in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. In fact, he wrote that music gave him his “first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never ...

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