Chicago Classical Review

Like many other music organizations in this economy, the Bach Week Festival has cut back its number of performances in…

Apr 30, 2011
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Thomas Quasthoff has bowed out of Sunday’s “Liebeslieder Project”concert due to illness.

The German bass-baritone has developed laryngitis and will…

Apr 30, 2011
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Anyone attending an Avalon String Quartet concert expects good things. Founded in 1995 and based at Northern…

Apr 28, 2011
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This week’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts bring the annual collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

For this event, the CSO…

Apr 28, 2011
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French Baroque opera is like a family member’s holiday dinner. You know you’re supposed to say you love it, but…

Apr 25, 2011
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Back home for their first concert after a triumphant Carnegie Hall stand last weekend, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was in…

Apr 23, 2011
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In his first public appearance Thursday afternoon, the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s incoming general director praised his predecessor William Mason,…

Apr 21, 2011
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A new Easter musical tradition has begun in Chicago.

Yes, the fast choruses were a hazy blur…

Apr 21, 2011
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The next general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago will be Anthony Freud, current general director of…

Apr 21, 2011
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While Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra were wrapping up their weekend Carnegie Hall stand in New York Sunday…

Apr 18, 2011
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