Music of the Baroque today announced its plans for a 2021-22 season, the venerable Chicago area ensemble’s 51st.

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

Chicago’s history is inextricably tied to fire. Here’s some music that takes inspiration from flames.

Conductors are all but a given in symphonic performance today. Front and center, they provide a dynamic focal point for the audience while guiding the artistic experience onstage. But what if there were no conductor? Who would run the show? In chamber music, the artists themselves are usually tasked with determining the artistic interpretation and then communicating together to play …

Beneath the Tiffany Dome of the Chicago Cultural Center, 18-year-old pianist Kimberly Han performed works by Bach, Haydn, and Chopin on August 14. Han, who hails from Lake Forest, Illinois and has appeared on WFMT’s Introductions several times, shared the program for a Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert. She performed an austere Bach prelude and fugue, an upbeat Haydn piano …