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Playlist: Music to Help Your Garden Grow

The frost has (hopefully) gone for the year, so it's time to get planting. Here's music to help your garden grow... or at least, get you focused on gardening!

New Releases Apr. 15: Suites, Unheralded Women, Third Coast Percussion

Beloved Chicago envelope-pushing quartet Third Coast Percussion celebrates 20 years with a characteristically adventurous album. Plus, suites by Tchaikovsky and Thomas Adès. Finally, get to know two unjustly overlooked women composers: Swede Elfrida Andrée and Brit Ruth Gipps.

Grammy Nominees 2025

Dive in to the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees!

Chicago Sinfonietta Names Viral Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas Artist-in-Residence

"Dilla" has made a name for himself with his engaging content about his hometown — exemplified by his unofficial motto: “everything dope about America comes from Chicago.”

President Biden Awards Chicago Arts, Journalism Champion Bruce Sagan the National Medal of the Arts

In his acceptance statement, Sagan reflected on the critical role of the arts “to the quality of life in our complex changing world,” as they serve to “both entertain us and educate us.”
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