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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.

Stephen RaskauskasNovember 16, 2017

How Do You Practice a Concerto Without an Orchestra? Pianist Kirill Gerstein Explains

Stephen RaskauskasNovember 15, 2017

Hear Kirill Gerstein Play Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 the Way Tchaikovsky Intended

Becky NystedtNovember 8, 2017

Video | Try a Virtual Sound Therapy Session to Block Out the Noise in Your Life

New Music, Deep Listening: Chicago’s Frequency Festival Celebrates 5 Years

Estlin UsherFebruary 17, 2020

With all the incredible performances that happen every year around this city, it can be easy to forget: Chicago is a hub for new music. This year, one of the cornerstones of Chicago's contemporary classical music scene — Frequency Festival — celebrates its fifth year in a week of new music concerts.

Odysseys of Movement, Music in Joffrey Program

Keegan MorrisFebruary 14, 2020

Culminating in “The Times Are Racing” by choreographer Justin Peck, Joffrey's mixed-rep program features “ballet, contemporary, comic, and a ‘sneaker ballet,’” artistic director Ashley Wheater describes.

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The Film Score: Music for Halloween

Michael San GabinoOctober 30, 2017

Through a Farce Darkly: How a Glinka Overture Became the Theme Song for the Sitcom ‘Mom’

Candice AgreeOctober 27, 2017

Let’s pretend. Let’s pretend that one of the classical world’s most famous opera overtures is heard by some 12 million people, every week, on TV. More amazingly, it’s neither on a public television station nor the opening music for a roundtable news program. Instead, in this fantasy world it’s in a half-hour situation comedy created by the same man who’s brought to TV Big Bang Theory, Two and Half Men, Dharma and Greg, Cybil, Mike and Molly, and Young Sheldon, to name a few.

Hear the Timeless Sound of Yma Sumac, the Soprano Called “a Descendant of the Last of the Incan Kings”

Galilee AbdullahOctober 26, 2017

Imagine you’re seated in Royal Albert Hall in London. You look to the stage and see a woman in a glamorous, feathered skirt. Her headpiece crowns her like royalty, and her neck drips with jewels that glow in the dim lights of the hall. When she opens her mouth, you wonder, “Is that a canary?” But you are witnessing none other than soprano Yma Sumac.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center