Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, right, and pianist Yunchan Lim during a concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 18, 2025. (Todd Rosenberg) The second half of the concert opened with “Con brio, ...

Forget Lollapalooza and all the rest. The hottest festival ticket happens just once a generation, if not once a lifetime. That would be the Mahler Festival, a musical G20 summit of sorts celebrating ...

The world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), led by Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti, will make its debut at The Soraya with a program that includes Brahms's final symphony, ...

“Day for Yoko Ono,” 12 p.m. Feb. 7, and “Night for Yoko Ono,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18, both in the Museum of Contemporary Art ...

AMSTERDAM — At the Royal Concertgebouw, one of Europe’s most storied concert halls, Marina Mahler couldn’t stop eavesdropping on the rehearsal happening just yards away. She occasionally stopped ...

Some years, it feels like when we get to the beginning of the new culture season, classical music hits the snooze button and doesn’t really get rolling until late September or October. It doesn’t stop ...

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CHICAGO — The Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra is preparing for a once-in-a lifetime show. They’re bringing the sounds of the symphony to a place you might not expect: Lollapalooza. The Chicago Youth ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra left the sold-out audience in Foellinger Great Hall breathless Tuesday evening following its performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” Known ...

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