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Curator Ross Jordan, from left, associate director Matthew Randle-Bent and director Liesl Olson on Dec. 9, 2024, at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicagoans of the Year in Museums: Liesl Olson, Ross Jordan and Matthew Randle-Bent of Jane Addams Hull-House

December 19, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

The team behind the Hull-House Museum is looking to replicate the civically engaged work of Hull-House in some way.

Composer Shawn Okpebholo on Dec. 12, 2024, at Wheaton College's Conservatory of Music. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music: Composer Shawn Okpebholo’s music always means something

December 18, 2024 at 2:15 p.m.

Shawn Okpebholo’s music sings of Chicago, from its waterways to its architecture to its ugly history.

New Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director designate Klaus Mäkelä conducts the CSO at Symphony Center on April 4, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

2024’s best of the best of the best in classical, jazz and more

December 25, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

Shows that made us feel weightless, soothed, exhilarated, connected, whole this year.

Conductor Kirill Petrenko leads the Berliner Philharmoniker in a performance of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony in Orchestra Hall in Chicago. (Robv Davidson Media)

Review: Berlin Philharmonic makes another sublime stand at Symphony Center

November 29, 2024 at 7:36 a.m.

Concluding its U.S. tour in Chicago, the orchestra attracted a classical music who's-who to Tuesday night's concert in Orchestra Hall.

Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain performs with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Kendrick Armstrong in the CSO MusicNOW series featuring Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR): Voices of Migration & Innovation at the Chicago Symphony Center on Nov. 24, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: Daniel Bernard Roumain outshone by colleagues in first MusicNOW of CSO season

November 26, 2024 at 8:59 a.m.

In a matter of days, composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain is going to walk the same tightrope as many of us over the holiday season. Roumain, 53, was born...

Daniil Trifonov, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s artist-in-residence, plays a recital of Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Barber on Nov. 17, 2024, at Symphony Center. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Artist-in-reticence: How a pianist of few words became the CSO’s newest ambassador

November 20, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov is the orchestra's new artist-in-residence. A well-attended recital this last weekend and a masterclass with music students on Monday were both windows into his kind of...

Music director emeritus Riccardo Muti and pianist Mitsuko Uchida take a bow before performing with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center on Oct. 31, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: At the CSO, two programs alike only in their headliner: Riccardo Muti

November 9, 2024 at 9:15 p.m.

He conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, "Eroica,” with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, then returned this weekend with a premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s suite from the Francis Ford Coppola film “Megalopolis,” with...

Poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros is collaborating with composer Derek Bermel on an opera-adaptation of “The House on Mango Street.” Photographed before an event at National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture on Oct. 23, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

‘House on Mango Street’ is becoming an opera, with Sandra Cisneros’ help

November 5, 2024 at 7:23 p.m.

In a rare case of an author adapting her own work for the stage, the author is the librettist of a bilingual opera now taking shape in Michigan.

A Maison Félix silk dress from 1885 is displayed in The Dressed in History exhibition at the Chicago History Museum. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

‘Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective’ at the Chicago History Museum weaves a wearable story

October 31, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

The oldest garment on display in “Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective” dates from the 1770s, while the most recent dates to last year.

Blake-Anthony Johnson, Chicago Sinfonietta president and CEO, in December 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Chicago Sinfonietta president Blake-Anthony Johnson will depart in 2025

October 28, 2024 at 12:37 p.m.

He will be the new CEO of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, following a transformative few seasons leading the Sinfonietta.

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