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Jazzy ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ swings on after 57 years

“Christmas just doesn’t feel like Christmas without hearing that album in the background,” said Derrick Bang, author of the biography Vince Guaraldi at the Piano.

Associated PressMarch 12, 2018

Levine fired by Met after it finds evidence of sexual abuse

Michael San GabinoMarch 9, 2018

15-year-old pianist Yerin Yang wins 2018 Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition

Stephen RaskauskasMarch 8, 2018

Of All US Orchestras, Chicago Sinfonietta Has Programmed the Highest Percentage of Works by Women

Larry Johnson, Host of WFMT’s ‘Arias and Songs’ Has Died at Age 72

Robbie EllisMarch 9, 2020

Larry Johnson, the host of WFMT’s Arias and Songs, died over the weekend in his home on Chicago’s North Side. He was 72 years old. He leaves behind a brother, Alan Johnson, and a cousin, Lynn Newhart. Larry had a business career in the textile industry but was always an avid music lover and record collector. He joined WFMT as ...

9 Works by Women Writers We Want to See Adapted into Operas

Anna GoldbeckMarch 9, 2020

We’re glad to see that in recent decades, more and more works by women writers have been given their due in the opera house. Here’s a look back at some of them, and a short list of works by women that we’re waiting to see operatically staged.

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Music for Oscar Week 2018

Michael San GabinoFebruary 26, 2018

Explore this year's Oscar-nominated film scores with Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips.

The Old Town School of Folk Music at 60: Music tonight and every night since 1957

Louise FrankFebruary 21, 2018

Over the last sixty years, the Old Town School of Folk Music has grown from humble beginnings to become the largest nonprofit community arts school in the United States.

Classical radio host Carl Grapentine announces retirement from “dream job” at WFMT

Stephen RaskauskasFebruary 20, 2018

WFMT’s longtime Morning Program host Carl Grapentine landed what he describes as his “dream job” by chance. He first heard about WFMT in the early 1970s from his colleagues at WQRS, a classical radio station in Detroit that modeled itself after WFMT. Years later, while attending the Concert Music Broadcasters Association in Chicago, “I got up the courage to speak ...

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