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New music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä at the Mandarin Oriental New York on March 20 in New York.(Barry Williams/for baiduhai)

CSO appoints Klaus Mäkelä as the youngest music director in orchestra’s history

April 3, 2024 at 7:09 a.m.

At age 28, he is the fastest-rising conductor in decades. He will be the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 11th music director, effective in the 2027-28 concert season, following Riccardo Muti.

Piano and keyboard player Herbie Hancock performs as part of the Jazz Series at Symphony Center in Chicago on Saturday, March 30, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: Herbie Hancock and a sterling sextet ignite Symphony Center Jazz

March 31, 2024 at 2:06 p.m.

His Symphony Center appearance on Saturday — his 14th in 26 years — plotted the best path possible with a concert that acknowledged Hancock’s ubiquity while resisting a best-hits roadshow.

CSO principal flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson performs Liebermann’s Flute Concerto No. 2 with conductor Susanna Mälkki and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: At CSO, a rare world premiere shines against an unbalanced Mahler 4

March 25, 2024 at 4:12 p.m.

Led by guest conductor Susanna Mälkki, CSO principal flutist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson debuted Lowell Liebermann’s second flute concerto.

“A Love Supreme,” a solo exhibition by Norman Teague inspired by jazz musician John Coltrane at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Feb. 29, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Norman Teague’s ode to Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” overflows, ecstatically, into Elmhurst’s Mies van der Rohe house

March 21, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

“A Love Supreme” is Norman Teague’s ode to himself. But not the Teague of today. He’s thinking of the Teague of several yesterdays ago.

Maureen and Bob Carson pour wine while picnicking on the lawn before opening night of the 87th Chicago Symphony Orchestra Residency at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park on July 14, 2023. (Michael Schmidt/For Pioneer Press)

Ravinia Festival 2024: James Taylor and debuts by Ben Platt, Samara Joy, but Breaking Barriers shrinks

March 15, 2024 at 11:38 a.m.

Also the Violent Femmes will play their debut album with Chicago Philharmonic, and the CSO’s opening weekend is genuinely stellar.

Percussionist and bandleader Kahil El'Zabar is seen at home in Chicago on March 8, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble is 50. But bandleader Kahil El’Zabar is more interested in the next 50 years

March 13, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

“Spiritual jazz” has become an ever-squishier genre tag, but for the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, no other name fits.

A gorilla eats leaves inside its current habitat at the Brookfield Zoo on Feb. 22. 2024. The expanded Tropical Forests habitat is set to open in April 2025. (Troy Stolt/for the baiduhai)

Brookfield Zoo Chicago announces $66 million Tropical Forests for primates as part of major redesign

March 16, 2024 at 9:07 p.m.

Brookfield Zoo announces new name and site redesign, starting with new $66 million primate facility

Chicago Symphony Orchestra artist-in-residence Hilary Hahn shakes hands with conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada during a concert at Symphony Center on Dec. 9, 2021. Orozco-Estrada will open the CSO's next season with a program including Hahn. (Victor Hilitski for the baiduhai)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra announces its 2024-25 season and new artist-in-residence

March 1, 2024 at 4:52 p.m.

In a sign of changing winds, Riccardo Muti is not kicking off the 2024-25 season. That honor goes to Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

Ron Carter's Golden Striker Trio members Donald Vega, from left, Ron Carter and Russell Malone perform at Symphony Center Friday in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Review: With Ron Carter and a Blue Note supergroup, it’s a tale of two sets at Symphony Center

February 18, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Friday night's concert paired bassist Ron Carter with the newly minted Blue Note Quintet promoting Blue Note Records’ 85th anniversary.

Conductor Lina González-Granados leads the Civic Orchestra at Symphony Center in Chicago on Feb. 12, 2024. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: Civic Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird salute late conductor in dynamic evening

February 13, 2024 at 2:36 p.m.

Monday’s Civic Orchestra concert wasn’t supposed to be a memorial. But earlier that morning, former principal conductor Cliff Colnot, 76, died after an illness in Chicago.

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