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Rembrandt Chamber Players offer the Neo as well as the Baroque

Sunday night’s program by the Rembrandt Chamber Players at Evanston’s SPACE […]

Dec 13, 2010
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Fleming charms Lyric Opera audience with music from her past and future

With all the heavily orchestrated media hoopla last week over Renée Fleming’s […]

Dec 12, 2010
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Britten’s Nativity setting spotlighted in Ferris Chorale’s first Christmas concert at Loyola

The Christmas concerts of the William Ferris Chorale remain a Chicago […]

Dec 12, 2010
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Renée Fleming takes artistic advisory position with the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Renée Fleming has been named creative consultant to the Lyric Opera of […]

Dec 09, 2010
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Pianist Hough serves up thrilling fireworks in rarely heard Tchaikovsky concerto

Quick, what is the finest piano concerto by a popular composer, […]

Dec 09, 2010
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard brings out the unpredictable in varied recital

More often than not, the Sunday afternoon piano recital is a […]

Dec 08, 2010
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A largely enjoyable “Mikado” this, at Lyric Opera

They say we’re not Grand Opera but what’s that all about?A […]

Dec 07, 2010
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Chanticleer brings reverence and panache to wide-ranging Christmas program

Even the most irritable holiday curmudgeons had to be charmed by […]

Dec 07, 2010
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With a new name, ACM finds bracing music in newspaper excerpts

Access Contemporary Music is on to something. On Monday night, the […]

Dec 07, 2010
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Music of the Baroque marks season with memorable performance of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio”

The thing about ambitious artistic gambles is that when a music […]

Dec 06, 2010
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