Review: At the CSO, Mäkela and Lim make the 19th century new
Pianist Yunchan Lim pairs a Schumann concerto with Klaus Mäkelä's Beethoven 7 headliner.
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Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz: In 2025, Gustavo Cortiñas’s drums sang
Gustavo Cortiñas doesn’t “do” absolute music — music for music’s sake. The Humboldt Park-based drummer’s work is always about something.
Chicagoans of the Year for Museums: National Public Housing Museum staff keeps residents at heart
Museum staffers, many of whom are have lived in public housing, share their experiences, inspiring visitors to open up about their own.
Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music: Seth Boustead is the musical dreamer behind CheckOut
The CheckOut — a cozy music venue housed in a former 7-Eleven — opened in September and has already become a fixture both in Chicago's contemporary music scene and the...
Best classical and jazz of 2025: Our top 10 included a tasty concept at Ravinia, improv and a ‘moving’ performance at the CSO
The best festival, the best solos and some fresh ideas from a busy year for Chicago music.
Review: A chilling CSO premiere, magnificently led
Matt Aucoin's "Song of the Reappeared," based on the work of poet Raúl Zurita, is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's only world premiere this season and should not be missed.
Review: ‘Falstaff’ by Chicago Opera Theater is a sunny farce that shows off the real Salieri
This production in the Fine Arts Building transplants Shakespeare-via-Salieri’s comical opera to a chi-chi, “White Lotus”-style beach resort.
MCA’s ‘Police State’ is a lesson in resistance from a founding member of Pussy Riot
Dissident Nadya Tolokonnikova talks to the Tribune about the installation that re-creates a Russian prison cell inside the museum.
Walking in the Loop? Look down. You may be passing new markers of city’s Race Riot of 1919.
Brick markers identify where Chicagoans were slain, with 19 of the 38 planned bricks installed to date.
Review: A guitar concerto throwback enlivens Riccardo Muti’s CSO fall residency
Performances by soloist Pablo Sainz-Villegas were the highlight of Muti’s two-week autumn residency, now customary for the CSO’s music director emeritus.