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Playlist: 8 Works for Hanukkah

With Hanukkah right around the corner, it is a perfect time to plan your celebration. Include this music in your festivities.

Stephen RaskauskasApril 6, 2018

Video: Hear Third Coast Baroque, Chicago’s Newest Early Music Ensemble

Stephen RaskauskasApril 4, 2018

Visa difficulties force Esperanza Spalding, National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba to cancel Chicago concert

Stephen RaskauskasApril 2, 2018

“Everybody has the blues”: Martin Luther King Jr. on How Music Brings People Together

Met Opera cancels season, stops pay of orchestra, chorus

Associated PressMarch 19, 2020

The Metropolitan Opera is canceling the rest of its season and stopping the pay of the orchestra, chorus and other unionized employees at the end of March due to the new coronavirus.

Quarantine Made Musical: Streamable Classical Concerts & Films To Brighten Your Day

Keegan MorrisMarch 17, 2020

It feels like hope and beauty are increasingly hard to find these days. Lucky for you, we've done the searching so you don't have to, compiling inspiring classical, jazz, and dance performances, films, and videos that you can stream for free!

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Inside the Sounds of the Upside Down: Meet the Composers of the Netflix Hit Stranger Things

Michael San GabinoMarch 28, 2018

Get to know Emmy Award-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, and how their interest in experimental music prepared them to score one of the definitive shows of our era.

For the Record: The Library of Congress Welcomes Four Classical Recordings to the National Recording Registry

Candice AgreeMarch 27, 2018

Every year since 2002, the National Recording Registry selects a number of sound recordings to honor. Here are four classical recordings registered this year.

Opera in New York City to feature inmates recorded in Iowa

Associated PressMarch 26, 2018

CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Inmates from an eastern Iowa prison have spent weeks learning German and perfecting inflections for a recording that will be played during a New York City opera performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Heartbeat Opera invited the Oakdale Community Choir of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center to perform the “Prisoner’s Chorus” for its New York City live ...

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