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10 Woman Conductors You Should Know

Though there is a long way still to go, today’s stages are richer because these pioneering conductors are on them.

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Listen: Late critic Andrew Patner celebrated during panel featuring Riccardo Muti and Alex Ross
Keegan MorrisMay 17, 2019
Andrew Patner, WFMT’s late critic-at-large and music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, passed away in 2015, but his characteristic wit and wisdom live on in his book, A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti.
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Studs Terkel Turns 107, His Archive Turns 1
Matthew ByrdMay 16, 2019
Studs Terkel, the gregarious, cigar-chomping oral historian, used to say of his birth that, “when the Titanic went down, I came up.”

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