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New Releases Dec 23: Paying Homage

The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, two Jewish composers who all but vanished from history, and other musical homages.

Associated PressApril 4, 2025

The delicate dance to preserve the magic of Abbey Road’s legendary Studio One

Iconic Chicago buildings — including the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and the Hancock Center — with happy, multicolored tulips in the foreground

Keegan MorrisApril 1, 2025

Playlist: Feel-Good Classical Music

Cavatina Duo — Denis Azabagic in black and Eugenia Molliner in red — pose against a metal tiled wall

Keegan MorrisApril 1, 2025

New Releases Apr. 1: Dynamic Duos

Portrait of Florence Price Later in Life Looking at the Camera.

New Releases Jul. 8: Price, Brahms, Film

Keegan MorrisJuly 8, 2025

Price concertos, Brahms symphonies, and works for film. Plus a wide variety of contemporary brass works, and music composed by Wilhelm Furtwängler.

American Flag in the sky, during the golden hour sun set

Independence Day Highlights on WFMT

Keegan MorrisJuly 2, 2025

All day long on July 4, WFMT will celebrate Independence Day. Here are some of the highlight performances and recordings!

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Pianist Jeremy Liu with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Symphony Center

Middle School Pianist Wins CSO Young Artist Competition

Robbie EllisMarch 25, 2025

The winner's teacher, Sueanne Metz, says his "genuine sincerity shines through when he performs, along with his intelligence, maturity, and creativity beyond his years."

New Releases Mar. 24: A Kanneh-Mason Debut, Ravel x2, Rare Birds, and More Composers

March 25, 2025

Composer-specific recordings are front-and-center this week, with two foregrounding works by Maurice Ravel, as well as album-length explorations dedicated to Telemann, Franz Schubert, and Georges Bizet. And two debut recordings: by Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and idiosyncratic chamber collective Owls.

Nadine Sierra in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

6 Epic, Over-the-Top Opera Mad Scenes

Keegan MorrisMarch 19, 2025

The mad scene: one of opera's most thrilling institutions.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff