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Artist Icebreaker: Conductor Yue Bao

Ahead of Yue Bao’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut at the Ravinia Festival this Sunday, August 8, she reveals to us some conducting secrets, her favorite cities for music, and more!

Stephen RaskauskasOctober 5, 2016

Listen to a Dramatic Reading of Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili’s Artist Bio To End All Artist Bios

Stephen RaskauskasOctober 4, 2016

Register Now to Visit the WFMT Archives October 6-8, 2016 During Chicago Open Archives

Stephen RaskauskasOctober 3, 2016

New Yorker Illustrator Tom Bachtell Talks Trump, Clinton, and Obama

CSO Contract Ratified, Strike Ends After 7 Weeks

Keegan MorrisApril 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 EdgarApril 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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