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Saxophonist Charles Lloyd leads his quartet during the Jazz Series at Symphony Center in Chicago on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: Two great saxophonists and their quartets kick off SCP Jazz season, even if only in spirit

October 26, 2024 at 1:49 p.m.

Double bills don’t get much better than this. The season led off with quartets linked to defining saxophonists: Wayne Shorter, who died last year at 89, and Charles Lloyd, who...

Liesl Olson, director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, gives a tour of the "Radical Craft" exhibit to students from the University of Chicago Laboratory School on Oct. 2, 2024. Displayed on the shelves are varying types of ceramic arts created by Mexican migrants, among them Jesús Torres, pictured on wall.(Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Open now at Hull-House, ‘Radical Craft’ is a tribute — and a corrective

December 11, 2024 at 6:18 p.m.

Taking over most of the museum while it rethinks its permanent installations, a new exhibition foregrounds the settlement’s overlooked history, starting with its residents.

André 3000 performs "New Blue Sun" during the 2024 Roots Picnic on June 2, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Taylor Hill/Getty)

Ahead of his Salt Shed concert, André 3000 talks about ‘New Blue Sun’ and his jazz music welcome

October 17, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The former half of OutKast returns to Chicago on Oct. 21, flute in tow. The city has had a bigger stamp on his sound than most.

From top to bottom left to right, new earth ensemble members Gabrielle Timofeeva López, Steven Wilson, Hannah Dixon McConnell, John E. Orduña, Joe Labozetta, Nikhil Harle, choral director Kirsten Hedegaard, Katherine Buzard, Trevor L. Mitchell, and Allison Selby Cook pose for a portrait at Loyola University, Oct. 7, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Meet the choir putting climate justice in its concerts, including ‘Malhaar: A Requiem for Water’

October 9, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

EcoVoice’s programming reflects co-founder Kirsten Hedegaard's belief that music can be a powerful way to spread a message. Its next concert is at Loyola University.

Violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and cellist Ken Olsen perform in DePaul University's Allen Recital Hall in Chicago on April 7, 2024. (MJ Mui)

Monument in miniature: CSO musicians prepare Bruckner’s rarely heard String Quintet

October 8, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

When violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and cellist Ken Olsen were asked to play Bruckner’s String Quintet with the Civitas Ensemble in honor of his bicentennial, both Chicago Symphony musicians were befuddled.

Keely Futterer, as Marcellina, and Alex Soare, as Giachino, perform during opening night of Chicago Opera Theater’s "Leonora" at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building on Oct. 1, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: ‘Leonora’ at Chicago Opera Theater is a shakily delivered discovery

October 2, 2024 at 3:03 p.m.

Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater present two versions of the same story this week: Beethoven’s more famous “Fidelio” and his Italian contemporary Ferdinando Paër’s “Leonora."

Giancarlo Guerrero, here as a guest conductor, leads the Grant Park Orchestra in works by Joan Tower and Dmitri Shostakovich at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion on July 10, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Grant Park Music Festival selects new chief baton: Giancarlo Guerrero

October 1, 2024 at 9:54 a.m.

He will succeed Carlos Kalmar as the next artistic director and principal conductor of Chicago's free summer classical music series in Millennium Park.

Lee Newcomer sits in the aisles of his store, Performers Music, which sells sheet music on the ninth floor of the Fine Arts Building in Chicago on Sept. 13, 2023. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

In appreciation: Musicians and staff remember Performers Music owner Lee Newcomer, who died at 81. He was the last of his kind.

September 30, 2024 at 11:16 a.m.

His store in Chicago's Fine Arts Building still sells sheet music off the shelf with barely a computer or a digital copy in sight. If Newcomer didn't have it, he...

Organist Phillip Kloeckner sits in front of the organ at the First United Methodist Church’s Chicago Temple Building on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Chicago. The organ was installed the same year the Temple opened in 1924 and less than 50 percent of the instrument is fully functional due to age, deterioration, electrical malfunction, and water damage from leaks in the floors above the church. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

The Chicago Temple is turning 100. Its birthday gift to itself? Fixing its historic organ.

September 26, 2024 at 5:56 p.m.

Called the Opus 414, it has 5,589 pipes and was completed in 1923, a year before the skyscraper church building was completed. Only about half of it works now, though...

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire performs at the Hyde Park Jazz Fest on Sept. 26, 2015. He plays the opening day of this year's festival. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Hyde Park Jazz Festival is back, packed with primo music — but facing its biggest challenges ever

September 23, 2024 at 12:05 p.m.

The sprawling South Side institution returns for the 18th year. But this time, it faces some existential threats.

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