“I have great admiration for the orchestra and Maestro Muti,” shares Hilary Hahn, “and it is an honor to join their organization and be present in the city of Chicago over the next two seasons.”

All weekend long, WFMT will be honoring Memorial Day in music. Check out these highlights that you won’t want to miss.

It’s been a strange, difficult year for the music world, which is all the more reason to celebrate musical excellence.

Many composers have also answered the call of springtime’s riotous colors during this, the blooming season.

Using his violin and virtuosic whistle, Andrew Bird genre-jumps from indie rock to jazz, and from folk to classical. Born in Lake Forest, Bird began learning classical violin from the Suzuki Method at the age of four and recalls, “My mom would have WFMT on all the time… My dad listened to Merle Haggard.”