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Playlist: Classical Music for Long Walks

In an array of stimulating and soothing music, give your walk a melodic backdrop or clear your mind for some deep thinking.

Angelica LasalaMarch 31, 2017

Boston Pops Violinist Dorothy Han Returns to Alma Mater to Teach Kenwood Students About Music & More

Stephen RaskauskasMarch 29, 2017

Composer Creates Music Major for Persecuted Bahá’ís in Iran Despite No Classrooms, Teachers, Piano

Michael San GabinoMarch 24, 2017

VIDEO: How a Holocaust Survivor Changed a Young Musician’s Life by Donating His Violin

An Operatic Oasis in the English Countryside — Journey to the Glyndebourne Festival

Michael San GabinoNovember 8, 2019

It’s not easy to get to Glyndebourne, and that’s the point. “We’re forcing people to slow down their busy lives,” says Gus Christie, the opera festival's executive chairman, “and to come in and soak it all up.” Discover the multi-sensory experience – the aromas of the gardens, the taste of champagne bubbles, the sounds from the stage – that is Glyndebourne.

Video: Pianist Hilda Huang Plays Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven at the Chicago Cultural Center

Keegan MorrisNovember 6, 2019

Fresh off a performance as the collaborative pianist to clarinetist Sam Boutris during last week's Dame Myra Hess Concert, Hilda Huang performed a scintillating program of works by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven

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This Classical Music-Inspired Cocktail Is A “Ravelation”

Sarah ZwinklisMarch 21, 2017

If you like to accompany your favorite pieces of classical music with a cocktail, try this drink that pairs perfectly with a sonata by Ravel.

Defiant Requiem Honors Holocaust Victims, Reminds Us: “The Arts Are Critically Important”

Stephen RaskauskasMarch 20, 2017

"What the Jews did at Terezín was reach for the best of mankind to help them endure the worst of mankind. This is what the arts can do. This is what the arts do do," says conductor Murry Sidlin

Composer Samuel Adams Explains How Schubert, J-Pop Inspired His First Work for the Chicago Symphony

David PolkMarch 17, 2017

31-year-old composer Samuel Adams didn’t yet have specific ideas in mind when he began his three-year residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra two years ago. Rather, he developed them as he got to know members of the orchestra and music director Riccardo Muti. Eventually, he decided that he wanted to write something that would “explore every possible extreme of what ...

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