Chicago Classical Review

Sunday afternoon’s concert at Symphony Center was an auspicious moment for Yo-Yo Ma in his role as creative consultant to…

The Pacifica Quartet’s ongoing cycle of the complete quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich reached its midpoint Sunday afternoon at Ganz…

If it’s late January and the lines are long at the box office, chances are somebody is playing Mozart.…

A largely youthful capacity audience at the Art Institute’s Fullerton Hall was treated to a muscular dose of envelope-pushing music…

There are some marriages of artist and repertoire that seem so natural and perfect that even the most persnickety of…

For thousands of music lovers, the highlight of Chicago’s musical season is about to begin.

On Thursday night pianist Mitsuko…

While the Bears were being trounced under the heels of the Green Bay Packers Sunday afternoon, a group of some…

A requiem wouldn’t have been out of place Sunday night. Certainly many in Chicago were mourning that afternoon’s playoff loss…

It’s not hard to understand why Puccini’s La fanciulla del West has been such a snark magnet since its premiere…

The Lake Forest Symphony under music director, Alan Heatherington, treated a sold-out house at the James Lumber Center in Grayslake…