Stories

Playlist: Soprano Ailyn Pérez Shares the Music and Singers Close to Her Heart

Chicago native soprano Ailyn Pérez speaks to us about some of her favorite Latin American and Spanish music and shares a playlist of influential singers and music.

Lisa Flynn | December 19, 2016

The 10 Best Classical Recordings of 2016

Tony Macaluso | December 14, 2016

WFMT’s Studs Terkel Archive Receives $400,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Carl Grapentine | December 12, 2016

How WFMT’s Mission Landed Morning Host Carl Grapentine His Dream Job

Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike

CSO Musicians Call for Continued Negotiations Amid Ongoing Strike

Graham Meyer | April 24, 2019

The musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra publicly called for management to return to the table to resolve the labor dispute now in its seventh week, the longest in the orchestra’s history.

WIU professor a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music

Associated Press | April 23, 2019

CHICAGO (AP) — A music composition professor in Illinois has learned he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music . Western Illinois University notes that finalists aren’t known until after a winner is announced. A Friday statement from the school says one of its professors, James Romig, found out he’d been up for the award after Los Angeles composer Ellen Reid was ...

Playlists

See All

Midday with Lisa Flynn