Archive for 2012

Lyric Opera serves up a delightful “Don Pasquale”

It’s not difficult to figure out why Don Pasquale is receiving […]

Nov 25, 2012
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Music of the Baroque presents a varied and engaging Bach program

Given Johann Sebastian Bach’s towering presence in the baroque world, any […]

Nov 20, 2012
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La Jolla Quartet offers a pleasing program at Mandel Hall

Exceptional playing at the service of some unusual chamber pieces highlighted […]

Nov 18, 2012
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Chicago Chorale delivers transcendent performance of Russian rarity

Rodion Shchedrin is known, if at all these days, for antic […]

Nov 17, 2012
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Lyric Opera chorus master quits

Martin Wright, chorus master of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, has […]

Nov 17, 2012
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Dal Niente showcases Israeli composer’s eruptive music

Evanston was the place to be for contemporary music fans over […]

Nov 17, 2012
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Cage Festival opens with chiseled and luminous piano and choral works

Maybe it’s an exaggeration to say that if composer John Cage […]

Nov 16, 2012
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Young Russian brings fresh illumination to Tchaikovsky with CSO

“He’s only 21,” said one of the five hundred students in […]

Nov 15, 2012
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From Beethoven to Holst, Chicago Master Singers present an array of sacred music

To be noticed in Chicago’s sprawling classical scene, dominated by a […]

Nov 13, 2012
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Muddled Massenet: Directorial excess fatally undermines a fine cast in Lyric Opera’s “Werther”

Pauvre Massenet. The Lyric Opera of Chicago launched its first production […]

Nov 12, 2012
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