Chicago Classical Review

“Dr. King would have been so proud to be with us tonight and see diversity in action,” intoned Chicago…

Sunday’s venturesome installment of the Winter Chamber Music Festival at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall demonstrated that chamber music need not be…

Anton Webern’s music seems to be suffering a paradoxical fate. With its surfeit of ideas and peerless concision, the Austrian’s…

Founded by Ralph Shapey, the Chicago Contemporary Players concerts—Contempo for short—have been bringing new music to local audiences for 46…

You would think that, in an age that has given us gangster rap, reality television and Rod Blagojevich, it would…

Last fall at the Harris Theater, the young American conductor Kazem Abdullah led a group of Brazilians through rehearsal like…

In an era when we routinely hear and enjoy music of immense diversity from the 19th century,…

The Pacifica Quartet’s performance of Beethoven’s Opus 130 Quartet at Mandel Hall Sunday demonstrated once again that…

Experiencing a suburban orchestra these days doesn’t necessarily mean an afternoon of Beethoven’s Fifth or a second-rate performance of…

For an impressive number of classical music lovers, it was the equivalent of hunkering down in front of a…