The CSO announces an array of concerts from September to January.

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

Though we tend to remember our favorite composers for their music first and foremost, many of them were virtuosic in more ways than one.

Though the music of your favorite composers might make you smile, chances are, the composers themselves aren’t smiling in their portraits. Until now…

When you think of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, you likely think of the two titular lovers and their tragic romance. But Sergei Prokofiev put politics at the center of his Shakespeare-inspired ballet, Romeo and Juliet, and got wrapped up in Soviet-era politics himself in composing it. In 1935, Prokofiev accepted a commission to create a new ballet for the Bolshoi …