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Klaus Mäkelä waves to the crowd at the Symphony Center, Feb. 16, 2022, in Chicago.

Review: At the CSO, guest conductor Klaus Mäkelä shines with Mahler

February 17, 2023 at 3:44 p.m.

At 28, Jean Sibelius had big plans. The Finnish composer had begun venturing into writing orchestral music just a few years before, and he already had operatic aspirations. "The Swan...

Experimental music composer Pascale Criton is coming to Chicago for this year's Frequency Festival.

Chicago’s Frequency Fest is back, a week of noise-punk guitarists and microtonal music. ‘I want to turn people onto this stuff.’

February 17, 2023 at 5:10 a.m.

Every February, the avant-garde of then and now, of here and elsewhere, settle into Chicago for an ecstatic week of sound-making. That's the closest thing to an elevator pitch as...

Jeff Alexander, president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, in 2016.

CSO announces 2023-24 season: A new Philip Glass commission and Muti remains guest of honor

February 15, 2023 at 11:00 a.m.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced its 2023-24 programming Wednesday, its first without a music director since Riccardo Muti's appointment in 2010. Muti, who leads the CSO through the end of...

Some of the paintings in the retrospective exhibit "Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963-2022" by the composer, jazz musician and painter Roscoe Mitchell are seen at Corbett vs. Dempsey. The paintings "Lady Moon" and "The Ticket Taker" are the first larger canvases on the left, with "Lady Moon" above in a heavier black frame.

For the first time, jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell takes center stage as a painter

February 1, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

Roscoe Mitchell has a morning routine. He wakes up at 4 a.m., when the windows of his Fitchburg, Wisconsin, home are still sheets of black. After watching the news, he...

The Oriental Institute Museum was established in 1919 at the University of Chicago. This spring it hosts "Making Sense of Marbles."

Museums for winter 2023: A grab-bag of exhibitions and openings to catch this winter

May 22, 2026 at 7:52 p.m.

Art buffs are spoiled for choice in our city: Museums big and small boast galleries so ever-cycling it would be nearly impossible to catch all the openings in a single...

Tenor Juan Diego Flórez will be in concert at Symphony Center in Chicago at the end of January 2023.

Classical music and jazz for winter 2023: No doldrums, just drums

January 10, 2023 at 9:54 a.m.

I can't help myself: Taking stock of the arts calendar, again and again, I find it hard to limit these lists to just 10 recommendations. But it's a good problem...

Composer Julia Wolfe on ‘Her Story,’ resonant in our own troubled times

January 2, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Julia Wolfe has long gravitated to epic vocal-instrumental works on historical themes, whether the folktale of steel driver John Henry ("Steel Hammer," 2009), turn-of-the-century Pennsylvanian coal miners ("Anthracite Fields," for...

Blake-Anthony Johnson, Chicago Sinfonietta president and CEO, in December 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Chicagoan of the Year for Classical Music: Chicago Sinfonietta president and CEO Blake-Anthony Johnson leads an orchestra for everyone

December 21, 2022 at 7:57 a.m.

For the past couple of years, all eyes have been on the Chicago Sinfonietta. Some of that attention was nothing new — or, at least, it shouldn't have been, seeing...

Photographed at the Court Theatre, the Chicagoan of the Year for Theater is longtime stage director Ron OJ Parson.

Chicagoan of the Year for Jazz: Drummer and composer Makaya McCraven remixes the past toward a brighter future

December 21, 2022 at 7:57 a.m.

When journalist Studs Terkel wrote his landmark 1974 book "Working," he described it as "a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread." One could describe the music...

Jazz guitarist Mike Allemana poses for a portrait at the Green Mill May 10, 2022 in Chicago. His latest album "Vonology" honors late tenor sax player Von Freeman.

Best of classical and jazz in 2022: Sun Ra Arkestra and Berlin Phil return, Chucho Valdés’ ‘Creación’ and a perfect Chicago day

December 8, 2022 at 6:53 p.m.

'Tis the season for superlatives. Below are the best of the best in classical music and jazz's broad orbit: A "Tosca" for the ages: When considering this straightforward Puccini blockbuster,...

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