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Louis Harris

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Review: Cedille Records Continues Excellence With New Releases

Update: Since this review was published in September 2020, Pacfica Quartet’s Contemporary Voices CD won  the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. Congratulations to Pacifica Quartet and everyone […]

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Classical, Music, Previews, Uncategorized

Preview: Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Quartet and Music of the Baroque to Perform In-Person Concerts in Skokie

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 […]

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Classical, Music, Previews, Uncategorized

Preview: Clarinetist Anthony McGill to Livestream This Friday

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 […]

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Classical, Music

Preview: Grant Park Festival Goes Virtual

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 […]

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Classical, Music, Previews

Preview: Third Coast Percussion to Perform Music by Danny Elfman on Friday

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 […]

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Classical, Music

Preview: Chicago Composer and Pianist Amy Wurtz to Livestream on Thursday

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 […]

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Classical, Music, Uncategorized

Preview: Third Coast Percussion to Continue Live Broadcasts on Saturday

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 […]

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Beyond, Soapbox

Viewpoint: How Beethoven 250 Made Me Relive Beethoven 9/11

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 […]

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Classical, Music

Review: Harris Theater Glows and Mourns at the End of the Beethoven 250 Festival

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 […]

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Review: Piano Trios Highlight Beethoven 250 at Symphony Center

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 […]

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Classical, Music

Review: Beethoven 250 Festival Continued Wonderfully

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 […]

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Review: Beethoven 250 Festival Gets a Rousing Start

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 […]

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