Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider returns to the CSO in Poulenc’s Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring Cameron Carpenter. Opening the program is Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

The orchestra’s slate of seven concerts will kick off in September with “Three Great American Symphonies.”

Take out the high courts and bring in the dancing elephants: here are some of the strangest opera plots that have ever been put to paper.

Violinist Sirena Huang and pianist Chih-Yi Chen perform works by Amy Beach, Francis Poulenc, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Chen Gang.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

Herbert Blomstedt returns to lead Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.

Music by Jolivet, Françaix, and Poulenc.

Violinist Masha Lakisova and Pianist Lindsay Garritson perform music by Francis Poulenc and Henryk Wieniawski, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Pianist Diego Caetano performs music by Antón García Abril, Cécile Chaminade, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, and Francis Poulenc, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider returns to the CSO in Poulenc’s Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and
Timpani and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring Cameron Carpenter.

Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi leads the Chicago College of Performing Arts Chamber Orchestra in music by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, and Vaughan Williams.

With this year’s Euro Cup Finals nearly upon us, chants and songs are breathing life into the stadiums. Yet as it turns out, the relationship between music and football extends way beyond chants and national anthems.

A new documentary charts the rise of Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin from a school stage to chief conductor at one of the world’s great opera houses.

September is National Piano Month, so WFMT is sharing a supersized playlist – with one selection corresponding to each key on the keyboard.

Listening to classical music can provide a general sense of peace and tranquility, but many great works promote pacifism as their central theme.

Another fantastic trip with Earthbound Expeditions and WFMT!

Can you imagine a world without the music of Handel, Tchaikovsky, or Britten? These great composers of the past are just a few of many important musical figures who did not identify as heterosexual.