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The Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest performing at Symphony Hall in Chicago.

Musical birthdays: These 12 institutions are hitting major milestones. They want you to celebrate with them.

March 31, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

Birthdays are always a great excuse to party. Luckily for us, a whole lot of them are blotting Chicago's musical calendar this spring. Twelve picks for the arts' most bustling...

Bassist Christian McBride plays at Constellation on March 23, 2023.

Review: What’s a ‘New Jawn’? Only Christian McBride’s hottest band yet

March 24, 2023 at 1:37 p.m.

It's not every day Constellation's view from the street is blotted out by a tour bus wider than the venue itself. Then again, it's not every day a musician of...

Museum-goers visit the Alsdorf Galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago on June 21, 2017.

Some of the Art Institute’s prominent antiquities from Nepal likely looted, investigation says

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

The Art Institute of Chicago's Alsdorf collection is at the center of renewed scrutiny over repatriation claims. Donated by Marilynn Alsdorf in 1997, the Alsdorf collection comprises some 500 antiquities...

J'Nai Bridges (as Carmen) and Charles Castronovo (as Don José), and company, in "Carmen" by Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Review: With a cast like this, ‘Carmen’ at Lyric Opera is a sure thing

March 16, 2023 at 1:42 p.m.

You know what they say about people who assume, but based on casting alone, it was hard not to expect great things from Lyric Opera's latest "Carmen." The company tapped...

Lollapalooza Día 2: Pierce Freelon se presenta en el escenario Kidzapalooza en Lollapalooza, el 29 de julio de 2022, en Chicago.

Presentan la temporada 2023 del Festival de Ravinia

March 16, 2023 at 11:31 a.m.

Vuelve el mayor festival de verano del norte de Chicago, y de qué manera. El Festival de Ravinia presentó el jueves una temporada 2023 especialmente amplia y repleta de estrellas,...

Boyz II Men performs in 2022, during Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Ravinia Festival 2023: Boyz II Men with Isley Brothers, women composers with the CSO

March 16, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Northern Chicagoland's biggest summer festival is back — and how. Ravinia Festival on Thursday unveiled an especially broad and star-studded 2023 season, featuring several high-profile debuts and the return of...

British mathematician Alan Turing, 16, at Sherborne School in Dorset, England, in 1928.

A decade in the making, world premiere of ‘The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing’ arrives at COT at the right time

March 16, 2023 at 6:25 p.m.

For as much as we know about the pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, we know relatively little about his death. Turing was found dead at his home in 1954,...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn performs as a soloist in Dvorák's Violin Concerto A Minor, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 9th, 2021.

Her residency extended at the CSO, violinist Hilary Hahn makes music like no one’s watching

March 13, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Hilary Hahn is doing what she does best: shredding a run from Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 in a world-class concert hall — in this case, the Sydney Opera...

Featured soloist Andrei Ionita performs on cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on March 9, 2023.

Review: In a meeting between orchestral music’s old and young guards, Blomstedt a bright spot in a mixed CSO program

March 10, 2023 at 1:20 p.m.

Over the past month, the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra have performed with the youngest and oldest conductors working at classical music's highest level. Three weeks ago, it was...

The Athenaeum Theatre, rebranded as the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, in Chicago on Feb. 13, 2023.

Separation of church and stage? Athenaeum Center’s mission shift divides former tenants and employees

February 22, 2023 at 3:27 p.m.

After debuting a new mission statement "to revitalize the great Catholic tradition of the arts," changes at the city's oldest continuously operating off-Loop theater have generated controversy among some small...

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