Review: Quatuor Diotima Performs Bartok and Beethoven With Passion, Intensity
The French string quartet Quatuor Diotima offered a vivacious performance on Friday night at Mandel Hall in Hyde Park. An…
Focus On: The Oriental Institute Museum at University of Chicago at 100
Is 100 years a long time? Maybe not geologically, but it is longer than an average lifetime. Here in the…
Review: Grossman Ensemble Presents an Evening of Premieres
An evening of premieres took place on Friday night at the Logan Center Performance Hall as the Grossman Ensemble offered…
Preview: New Composition Center to Inaugurate Its First Concert Season This Saturday
The Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition opens its first ever concert season this Saturday when the piano and percussion quartet…
Preview: Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival Will Ring Out This Friday and Saturday
The Rockefeller Chapel will be hosting the Carillon New Music Festival this Friday afternoon/evening and all day Saturday. This festival…
Faust and Melnikov Turn to Beethoven for their Chicago Debut With Mixed Success
Violinist Isabelle Faust and Pianist Alexander Melnikov gave a charming and clean, if occasionally restrained, performance of Beethoven sonatas on…
