Carlos Kalmar returned to the helm of the Grant Park Festival Orchestra at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday night. He and the orchestra were joined by Chicago’s own Third Coast […]
What draws a critic to one performance over another is entirely subjective. For me, it is sometimes the chance to hear a specific performer; other times, it is the opportunity […]
Artistic director emeritus Carlos Kalmar returned to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park to conduct a program that included a classical music chestnut and two rarely performed works on […]
Grant Park Music Festival opened their concert at Millennium Park on Friday in an unexpected way. It being Juneteenth, Mezzo-soprano Leah Dexter and pianist Christopher Guzman celebrated with a charming […]
The Grant Park Music Festival’s legendary luck held out as Wednesday’s stormy weather let up just in time for an excellent concert at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. […]
Signaling that summer has truly arrived, the Grant Park Music Festival began its annual serenade of audiences at the Jay Pritzker Pavillion in Millennium Park. The festival’s opening week continued […]
Nova Linea Musica completed their season on Wednesday with Blooming Under Blue Skies, a journey beyond the standard chromatic scales to pastoral tunes from the Balkans, the Mediterranean, and South […]
There is an old home video of Conrad Tao that captures the modest beginnings of a prodigy. In the footage, a very young Tao sits at the piano, pawing out […]
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ended their season at the Harris Theater on Wednesday evening with music from “France or France Adjacent,” as violist and Chicago native Matthew […]
For the third time in a month, pianist extraordinaire Evgeny Kissin graced the stage at Symphony Center with his powerful and dramatic technique on Sunday. The first two times he […]
For their final program of the 2025–26 season, the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians—drawn from the Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—offered a thoughtful look at how geographic displacement can […]
Some people are just born to do something surprising. They start out life in an everyday, normal way. Then, out of nowhere, a lightbulb or a spark goes off and […]