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Kennedy Center honorees still relish slimmed-down tribute

This year’s Kennedy Center Honors may be a slimmed-down affair as the nation emerges from the coronavirus pandemic — but honoree Dick Van Dyke still says it’s “the capper on my career.”

Stephen Raskauskas | January 11, 2017

“High Priestess” or “Master of an Art of Singing”? Changing the Conversation about Mahalia Jackson

Stephen Raskauskas | January 6, 2017

This Video of Bernstein Scolding Two Percussionists Proves Playing Triangle is Harder Than You Think

Stephen Raskauskas | January 4, 2017

Grant Park Music Festival Announces 2017 Season

CSO Contract Ratified, Strike Ends After 7 Weeks

Keegan Morris | April 29, 2019

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike has ended and a new, five-year contract through September 2023 has been ratified, the CSO musicians and management have confirmed.

Behind Terezín’s Walls, the Sounds of Resistance

Hannah Edgar | April 29, 2019

During the Third Reich, Nazis converted Terezín, a former military fortress 40 miles northwest of Prague, into a concentration camp. Aided by a large influx of Czech creatives and intellectuals, Terezín became the crucible for some of the most pointed art about the Holocaust. The musical life of the camp, in particular, was astonishingly rich — and often covert.

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