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Quiz: How Well Do You Know Basic Music Theory?

You may know your classical pieces; heck, you may even know your composers! But how good is your music theory knowledge?

Galilee AbdullahMay 12, 2017

This Video of Pianist Oscar Peterson Tearing It Up While John Williams Conducts Will Give You Life

Stephen RaskauskasMay 11, 2017

Yo-Yo Ma, Civic Musicians to Present Benefit ‘Concert for Peace’ at St. Sabina Church

Stephen RaskauskasMay 9, 2017

Pulitzer-Winning Librettist Mark Campbell Explains How to Write an Opera

Grammy Nominations Announced with Nods for Third Coast Percussion and Cedille Records

Mary MazurekNovember 20, 2019

The 2020 Grammy Nominations were announced this morning, and several members of the Chicago classical community received recognition as nominees.

A Striking Musical Retreat in the Big Sky State

Michael San GabinoNovember 19, 2019

Located on 12,000 acres in the foothills of the Beartooth Mountains, the rolling, expansive landscape of Tippet Rise provides an evocative complement for an art center and summer festival that combines music, sculpture, poetry, and nature.

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Conductor, MacArthur ‘Genius’ Marin Alsop Explains Why There Aren’t More Women on the Podiums

Stephen RaskauskasMay 8, 2017

Marin Alsop is a woman of many firsts; she spoke to WFMT about how she’s inspired young women, why there aren't more women on the podiums, and more.

This Waltz Once Attributed to Strauss Is Actually by Indigenous Mexican Composer Juventino Rosas

Stephen RaskauskasMay 5, 2017

Perhaps the next time you hear a waltz, you'll think Mexico City instead of Vienna.

How Lydia Mendoza, the First Queen of Tejano Music, Crossed Borders and Shaped a Tradition

Angelica LasalaMay 5, 2017

Decades before fans called Selena Quintanilla-Pérez the Queen of Tejano music, singer and 12-string guitarist Lydia Mendoza held the crown as Tejano music’s first female icon. Born in 1916 to parents who migrated to Texas during the Mexican Revolution, Mendoza began her music career in a family band that performed on street corners and in open-air markets to make ends ...

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff