As part of its Out Back Summer Sessions, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts will be hosting the Chicago Philharmonic Chamber String Quartet and Music of the Baroque in this […]
Chicago native Anthony McGill will be offering a livestream performance of works by Florence Price, Leonard Bernstein, and Carlos Guastavino this Friday evening, June 26. McGill grew up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood […]
Having delivered and recorded excellent concerts for many years, Grant Park Festival is dipping into its archives to offer Festival Remixed, a virtual season comprising performances from past seasons. Starting this Wednesday […]
Third Coast Percussion is livestreaming Danny Elfman’s Percussion Quartet this Friday evening. In the 1980s Elfman was the frontman and songwriter for the new-wave band Oingo Boingo. He has gone on to, […]
Chicago composer and pianist Amy Wurtz will be offering a livestream performance from the comfort of her living room this Thursday evening. The program includes fiery Preludes and Etudes by Rachmaninoff and […]
Sidelined by COVID-19 concert cancellations, Third Coast Percussion took their vibraphones and marimbas into their audience’s living rooms last Friday night with a live broadcast concert over YouTube. They will be presenting […]
I approached Monday’s Symphony Center concert of Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma performing Beethoven piano trios by with some trepidation. For nearly 20 years those piano trios have held a […]
What’s a reviewer to do when he walks in to review a performance of his favorite symphony and the orchestra delivers a magnificent rendition? For one thing, don’t take notes—just sit back […]
The Beethoven 250 celebrations shifted to Symphony Center Monday night where Emanual Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma put the more genteel side of Ludwig van Beethoven on display. Much attention is […]
The Beethoven 250 Festival at the Harris Theater continued on Saturday night with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique offering excellent performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony no. […]
The Beethoven 250 Festival at the Harris Theater got a rousing start on Thursday night with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and the Monteverde Choir offering vivacious renditions […]
The Beethoven 250 Festival opens this week at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance with all nine symphonies and other important orchestral works in five concerts spread over six days in […]
