Composer Jake Heggie celebrates vocalists with ‘Sing LOUDER’ podcast
What does a leading American composer do during a pandemic, besides write music? In the case of Jake Heggie – who's admired around the world for operas such as "Dead...
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Chicago’s jazz clubs struggle to stay afloat
Business had been improving recently at Chicago's jazz clubs, as listeners ventured out again to hear live music. But the latest pandemic restrictions prohibiting indoor dining and bar service mean...
Review: Haymarket Opera launches 10th season on film with ‘Acis and Galatea’
The Haymarket Opera Company did not originally plan to launch its 10th anniversary season online. But on Friday evening the early music group did exactly that, in an unconventional and...
Chicago jazz master Howard Levy forges through pandemic by ‘Looking Inward’ with piano improvisations
Everyone in jazz knows that Chicagoan Howard Levy commands a global reputation as a harmonica virtuoso. Fewer realize that he's also an uncommonly fluid jazz pianist. But even those familiar...
Shemekia Copeland scores a triumph with ‘Uncivil War’
When formidable Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland released the single "Uncivil War" a few months ago, she wasn't just lamenting a nation increasingly at odds with itself. She also was...
With performances by Yo-Yo Ma and many others, CSO raises $910K via ‘Sounds of Celebration’
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has staged uncounted gala fundraisers through the years, but never one quite like Saturday night's affair. Musical luminaries from around the world reflected on what...
‘Everything that we do, we can’t do.’ As Big Ten football takes the field, how are the sidelined marching bands coping?
If this were a "normal" year, the Northwestern Wildcat Marching Band – which bills itself as "The Finest Band in the Land" – would be revving up for Saturday's big...
CSOtv expands with November events
An historic Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert featuring conductor Jean Martinon and violinist Isaac Stern, a performance of Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" and a recital by pianist Jorge Federico Osorio will...
Lyric Opera cancels rest of season due to coronavirus; plans to resume next September
Lyric Opera has canceled the rest of the 2020-21 season due to the pandemic. "Having to cancel the remainder of our season is devastating but unavoidable, in order to keep...
Remembering Dmitry Paperno: A great Russian pianist who enriched Chicago
Pianist Dmitry Paperno did not have an easy life. He launched his career in a Soviet system that crushed spirits, sanctioned anti-Semitism and demeaned artists of his considerable stature (he...