Would you perform with your dad? Sure — when he’s Jeffrey Kahane
Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane will perform together in a rare duo recital at Northwestern University.
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CSO gives a sneak peek of its big Amsterdam trip with upcoming Mahler concerts
Ahead of the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will play Mahler’s Sixth and Seventh symphonies at Symphony Center.
Review: Hiromi and Brandee Younger are sonic wonders for SCP Jazz
Symphony Center sold out on Friday to hear Younger's trio and pianist Hiromi Uehara in a double bill.
Review: Canellakis and a mixed CSO concert is a reminder of the orchestra’s staffing challenges
Let’s hear it for substitute musicians. Without them, many a Chicago Symphony concert this year so far would have been impossible — including Thursday’s performance of “Canellakis Conducts Rachmaninov.”
National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago, the first of its kind, with residents’ stories at its heart
Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, the new Chicago museum is filled with the stuff of real residents' lives.
George Freeman, a trailblazing jazz guitarist who enjoyed a late-career renaissance, dies at 97
Though at times overshadowed by his famous brother Von Freeman, he collaborated with the biggest names in jazz and also released his own celebrated albums. Born on the South Side,...
In Lyric Opera’s ‘The Listeners,’ one little sound drives a woman to the edge
The opera by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follows a schoolteacher who is plagued by a sound called "the Hum," reportedly a real-life phenomenon that remains unexplained.
Review: Instrument families get the spotlight at CSO’s MusicNOW
Chicago Symphony clarinetist John Bruce Yeh was about to perform when a draft swept the sheet music off one of his eight — yes, eight — music stands.
Amid discontent at classical station, WFMT employees announce intent to unionize
Discontent at WFMT spilled into the public eye last fall, when Dennis Moore, a veteran host, accused the station of firing him rather than accommodating a doctor-approved disability.
CSO’s principal flute departs for the Berlin Philharmonic
Musician Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, the principal flute of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is taking a one-year leave of absence from the orchestra after winning the same post at the Berlin...