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Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the premier of composer Jessie Montgomery's work "Transfigure to Grace" on May 11, 2023, at Symphony Center in Chicago.

Review: ‘Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2’ at CSO is a program to make believers of skeptics

May 12, 2023 at 1:55 p.m.

It's hard to imagine Sergei Rachmaninoff getting the short end of the stick today. The pianist-composer, whose 150th birthday would have been last month, is an assured presence on symphony...

Shawn Okpebholo, Wheaton College professor and composer of "The Cook-Off," in a courtyard of the Fine Arts Building on April 26, 2023.

Shawn Okpebholo’s music is about to be on operatic stages in the comic one-act ‘The Cook-Off’

May 8, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

If you haven't heard Shawn Okpebholo's music, you will soon. The Wheaton College professor has been a regular presence in programs by city ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony's contemporary MusicNOW...

Third Coast Percussion members David Skidmore, left, and Peter Martin perform with the street dance team Movement Art during a presentation of Metamorphosis at the Harris Theater in downtown Chicago on May 2, 2023.

Review: Third dancer’s the charm in unforgettable collaboration between Third Coast Percussion and Movement Art Is

May 3, 2023 at 4:22 p.m.

It had been a hectic 24 hours for Third Coast Percussion. As ensemble member David Skidmore told Tuesday night's audience at Harris Theater, the percussion quartet spent the previous day...

Carlos Kalmar conducts the Grant Park Orchestra on June 17, 2021.

Grant Park Music Fest conductor Carlos Kalmar is investigated at Cleveland Institute of Music

May 3, 2023 at 3:24 p.m.

Grant Park Music Festival conductor Carlos Kalmar is the subject of a Title IX investigation at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he has taught as director of orchestral and...

Yo-Yo Ma takes a bow with conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto before performing Cello Concerto in E Minor by Elgar with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center May 1, 2023.

Review: Yo-Yo Ma with the CSO: Sometimes messy, sometimes touching, but it’s Yo-Yo Ma

May 2, 2023 at 12:27 p.m.

The conductor is trying to melt into the floor, and Yo-Yo Ma isn't letting him. It takes a lot to make maestro Carlos Miguel Prieto blush, but on Monday night...

Kara Jackson's debut album is "Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?"

Kara Jackson’s debut album is earning raves. Her going from Oak Park to National Youth Poet Laureate was just a start.

May 1, 2023 at 5:20 a.m.

Honeyed yet rough-hewed, deep and daring, Kara Jackson has the voice of someone who's lived a lot of life. At 23, she has. The self-described child of "country folk" who...

A provenance label inside of a vintage violin indicates this instrument was played in the Auschwitz Orchestra.

Violins from the Holocaust arrive in Chicago. More than powerful artifacts, ‘these instruments are made to be played’

April 13, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

It's a cardinal rule of history exhibits: Look, don't touch. Violins of Hope, a touring collection of instruments that passed through Jewish families during and after World War II, has...

The Flaget Madonna is purported to be a Renaissance painting by the Italian artist Raphael and his studio, photographed here on March 24, 2023. The painting depicts the Madonna and Child with Elizabeth and John the Baptist.

A Winnetka man spent years trying to prove he had found a Raphael painting. Was he right?

May 22, 2026 at 7:51 p.m.

It sounds like something out of a Dan Brown thriller novel: a suburban man stumbles upon a lost masterwork by Raphael in an antique store abroad. Stranger than fiction, sure...

George Freeman performs at the Green Mill Friday in Chicago in April 2019. He'll be back at the club this month to promote the release of "The Good Life," his new album at age 96.

South Side guitarist George Freeman is still packing Chicago’s jazz clubs, at age 96

April 5, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

George Freeman has done more than witness jazz history. He's made it. The musicians Freeman can count as one-time colleagues boggle the mind. Duke Ellington. Dexter Gordon. Sonny Stitt. Eugene...

Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sept. 23, 2021. The CSO was one of 10 leading musical institutions to release exclusive content on the new Apple Classical app, part of Apple Music.

Column: I wanted to hate the new app Apple Music Classical — but for the most part I couldn’t

March 31, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.

Look, it's not that us classical music fans are snooty. But ask any aficionado and we'll roundly agree: Music streaming platforms get the genre so, so wrong. Searching for classical...

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