Pass by a 7-Eleven in the city, and you might hear classical music pouring from the speakers outside — a tactic deployed by some store franchisees to shoo away loiterers. A former 7-Eleven at ...
A few hundred onlookers watched raptly as the sounds of a violin and cello from The Confluence Quartet filled a one-block stretch of the Uptown neighborhood Saturday. From a small stage Saturday ...
These are scintillating times: classical music is in a state of unprecedented and unparalleled metamorphosis. Some claim that it will not outlast the next decade. Others maintain that we are in the ...
Arguing art is its own form of resistance, the Minnesota Opera forged ahead with the world premiere “My Name is Florence” ...
The pianist Han Chen will be presented by Classical Music Chicago in a solo recital on Wednesday afternoon September 3, 2025 at 12:15 p.m. CDT at Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist. Part of the ...
Yo-Yo Ma, the globally acclaimed cellist, has had a longstanding affinity for Chicago. In an interview Monday, he called it “one of the great cities in our world.” It is against this backdrop that Ma ...
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Chicago Classical music outlet WFMT has named weekend host and producer Jan Weller as the new weekday host of Morning Music. Taking his place, station personality Kristina Lynn will serve as maestro ...
If you have modern Philips CD recordings (or MP3s, for that matter) of any classical piano repertoire, chances are you have some Alfred Brendel. I know my Beethoven and Schubert primarily through his ...