Chicago Classical Review

Violist Mathew Lipman, 17, becomes a student at Juilliard in the fall, but he’s already wrapping up high school like…

Apr 27, 2010
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Audience members almost audibly wince when management steps out for an announcement at the beginning of a recital: is somebody…

Apr 27, 2010
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Sunday’s matinee concert by Trio Settecento, the final day of Chicago’s first Early Music Festival, summed up everything the festival…

Apr 26, 2010
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It’s a fair bet that most audience members filing into the Harris Theater Saturday night…

Apr 26, 2010
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Jaap van Zweden has become the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s go-to batonsmith for sudden cancellations. The Dutch conductor, music…

Apr 23, 2010
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Chicago’s first-ever Early Music Festival began with a stutter Tuesday night, courtesy of a volcano called Eyjafjallajokul, but the series has…

Apr 22, 2010
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The mutable Chicago Ensemble closed its season Tuesday night with a typically generous and eclectic program of wind music at…

Apr 21, 2010
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Just by definition, any performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 is going to be an event. The…

Apr 20, 2010
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The applause that greeted clarinetist Anthony McGill as he entered the Merit School of Music’s Gottlieb Hall Sunday night for…

Apr 19, 2010
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The Rossini one thinks of is invariably the composer of such rollicking comedies as…

Apr 18, 2010
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