Alan G. Artner

When guest conductor Christoph Konig made his Grant Park Orchestra debut last year, he had the advantage of performing on the week Lollapalooza forced the ensemble indoors, where listeners can...

Older attendees to the Grant Park Music Festival may recall occasions when lightning and rain cut short or even canceled programs. Wednesday night's concert was a reminder of those times....

Longtime listeners to classical music in Chicago will recall a time when the fall concert season stimulated with interesting repertory and summer venues entertained with warhorses. Now that has largely...

David Fray closed the season of piano recitals at Orchestra Hall on Sunday afternoon with a program as intelligently selected as it was expressively played. Unlike many of his countrymen,...

The spirit of Gustav Mahler unexpectedly hovered over three contemporary compositions presented in their Chicago premieres Monday night during a MusicNOW concert at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance....

The Bach Week Festival began its 43rd season Friday night, treating listeners at Evanston's Nichols Concert Hall to a winning program of three works, fervently performed. There was no substitute...

The Newberry Consort is completing its season this weekend by returning to the Newberry Library's collection of choir books from the Convent of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Mexico...

Jordi Savall is one of those elect musicians whose curiosity, scholarship, probity and expressiveness give pleasure in everything he plays. In past years he came to the Chicago area —...