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‘The Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway next year

Broadway’s longest-running show is scheduled to close in February 2023, less than a month after its 35th anniversary.

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

Mister Rogers Remembered by His Former Music Director [Video]

Keegan MorrisNovember 24, 2019

For many of us, just hearing the lyrics "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood," is enough to transport us back to our childhoods.

Opera Explores the Brink of Humanity: ‘Dog Days’ Gets Chicago-Area Premiere

Michael San GabinoNovember 22, 2019

“It has been said that a society can be judged by the way it treats its animals,” composer David T. Little says in the program notes for his chamber opera, Dog Days. Based on a short story by Judy Budnitz, the opera is set in a war-torn future that’s not too far away from our own time.

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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 ...

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