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Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Brahms' Symphony No. 1 at Symphony Center on May 4, 2017.

Review: A smoky ‘Concert for Chicago’ in Millennium Park closes a Muti-CSO era

June 28, 2023 at 1:15 p.m.

Riccardo Muti's formal tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ended as it began: with a free concert in Millennium Park. That's where Tuesday's similarities with that bucolic...

Giovanni Sala, from left, Kyle Ketelsen, Alisa Kolosova and Erin Morley receive a standing ovation following their performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus in Beethoven's "Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123" at Orchestra Hall on June 23, 2023.

Review: Muti named CSO’s Emeritus for Life after a ‘Missa solemnis’ worth waiting for

June 25, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

After Friday night's concert, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced the formal title it's bestowing upon music director Riccardo Muti beginning next season, when he leads the orchestra's season-opening engagements and...

Donald Lawrence & Company perform during "Tribute to Ramsey Lewis: A Gentleman of Jazz," at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion inside Millennium Park on June 22, 2023.

Review: ‘Tribute to Ramsey Lewis’ in Millennium Park was a worthy send-off to a beloved pianist and Chicagoan

June 23, 2023 at 1:47 p.m.

Thursday was Ramsey Lewis Day in Chicago. At least 8,500 concertgoers likely already thought of it as such when they gathered in Grant Park for a concert tribute to the...

‘The last maestro’: Conductor Riccardo Muti steps down at the CSO and ends an era. But he’s not leaving just yet.

June 23, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

It's not arrivederci just yet. On Friday, the CSO made official what most already knew, or have assumed: Though his tenure as the orchestra's music director formally ends this month,...

Violinist Jeremy Black, left, performs as conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the orchestra during the Grant Park Music Festival season opener in Chicago's Millennium Park on June 14, 2023.

Review: Grant Park Music Festival’s opening programs crackle, despite the chill

June 18, 2023 at 12:32 p.m.

It's always something on Grant Park's opening week. Last year, sweltering temperatures and high winds made an obstacle course out of the festival's opening night. In other recent years, monsoon-level...

Guest conductor Jakub Hruša receives applause from the crowd before leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance at Symphony Center on June 8, 2023.

Review: Jakub Hru a conducts Mahler Symphony No. 9 at the CSO in a concert high on drama, low on interiority

June 10, 2023 at 11:05 a.m.

If there was ever a test of a conductor's mettle, it's Mahler's Ninth Symphony. New York heard such a trial last month, when Gustavo Dudamel led that city's Philharmonic in...

Review: Jakub Hru a conducts Mahler Symphony No. 9 at the CSO in a concert high on drama, low on interiority

June 9, 2023 at 4:01 p.m.

If there was ever a test of a conductor's mettle, it's Mahler's Ninth Symphony. New York heard such a trial last month, when Gustavo Dudamel led that city's Philharmonic in...

Kalyan Pathak, foreground, plays percussion as the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic performs "Chicago Immigrant Stories" at Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago on Thursday, June 14, 2018. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Classical music and jazz for summer: Our top picks, from Ravinia to a Harrison Bankhead retrospective

May 25, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

I keep hearing the same thing from all musical corners: The last two summers were busy, yes, but summer 2023 is busy-busy. This may be the first festival season since...

The Driehaus Museum is housed in the 19th century Nickerson Mansion, built for banker Samuel Mayo Nickerson at the height of the country's Gilded Age.

10 Chicago museum must-sees for summer 2023 — and yes, you can stay outside for some of them

May 22, 2026 at 7:49 p.m.

We're on our third fake out spring (conservatively), so you know what that means: summer is fast approaching, even on days it doesn't feel like it. Someday, we'll want to...

Evgeny Kissin and Renée Fleming perform music from Schubert at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Hall on May 14, 2023.

Review: Renée Fleming and Evgeny Kissin at the CSO, with Rachmaninoff songs a timely highlight

May 15, 2023 at 3:10 p.m.

Had all gone according to plan three years ago, Chicagoans would have witnessed an unprecedented celestial event at Symphony Center. We're not talking astronomy. April 2020 was to be the...

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