Howard Reich

Classical music documentaries tend to lionize their subjects, especially if they're conductors. But "Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is" – airing at 9 p.m. Oct. 23 on WTTW-Ch. 11 via...

The Chicago Sinfonietta opened its 33d season in a new location: cyberspace. But that wasn't the only way the performance – prerecorded at North Central College's Wentz Concert Hall in...

All Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association-presented performances scheduled from Jan. 7 through March 30, 2021, have been canceled due to the pandemic. CSOA concerts already had been canceled through the end...

One of Lyric Opera's more charming and disarming productions is unfolding not on its famous stage but in cyberspace. Each week, the company posts another episode of "Breaking Down the...

Twelve years ago, jazz singer Kurt Elling left Chicago for New York. Three months ago, he returned. The move, says Elling, was prompted not by the pandemic, which has devastated...

When jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant recently learned that she won a MacArthur Fellowship – which awards recipients $125,000 annually for five years – her response was as forthright as...