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Heaven and Earth: Music of the Baroque Announces 2023-24 Season

Boasting banner works like the Mozart Requiem and Bach’s St. John Passion, the season will feature eight programs performed at venues in and around Chicago.

Keegan MorrisMay 30, 2018

See highlights from WFMT’s first ever beach party

Stephen RaskauskasMay 30, 2018

Lyric Invites South and West Side Chicago Students To Tell Their Stories on a Grand Stage

Stephen RaskauskasMay 24, 2018

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Without New Music, Orchestras and Opera Houses Will “Dry up”

John Prine Dies, Rich Warren Pays Tribute

Rich WarrenApril 8, 2020

John Prine, who began his career in Chicago, exhibited the ability to wring every possible meaning from a word to expose the joy, sorrow, frailty, and strength of the human condition.

Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Slatkin, Vincent Price Team Up for an Orchestral Take on ‘The Raven’

Keegan MorrisApril 8, 2020

As an outsized figure in literature and poetry, Poe has inspired composers like Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Philip Glass, and composer-conductor Leonard Slatkin, who set Poe's "The Raven" to music in 1971.

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