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Gerald Fisher 1945-2024
Gerald Fisher, a longtime Andersonville resident and former reviewer and calendar […]
Jul 24, 2024
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Worlds collide engagingly with choral works and an American concerto at Grant Park Music Festival
For the past week the story of Chicago’s lakefront has been […]
Jul 08, 2023
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Lang Lang the star at CSO’s Ravinia opener but Eschenbach’s Berlioz strikes the most sparks
By cultivating a golden moment from the not-so-distant past, the Chicago […]
Jul 08, 2011
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Kalmar, Grant Park Orchestra serve up a program of worthy South American music
Arriving from all corners of the world, Chicago’s tourists invariably flock […]
Jun 25, 2011
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Amid rough moments, Baroque Band brings worthy advocacy to Handel rarity
Handel’s first oratorio La Resurrezione, written when he was just 23 […]
Jun 03, 2011
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Anaphora offers engaging premiere in an evening of new music
In a tiny arts space overlooking Wicker Park’s busiest thoroughfare, Anaphora […]
May 19, 2011
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Zhang and Civic deliver Bartok’s filmic barbarism
Xian Zhang—likely the only conductor to have held simultaneous podium positions […]
Dec 13, 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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Spivakov, Moscow Virtuosi bring boisterous energy to varied program
No matter who might be dropping in from the motherland—be it […]
Nov 13, 2010
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Chicago Master Singers soar in rare masterworks by Schumann and Bruckner
It was likely not a concert on most people’s radar, but […]
Nov 06, 2010
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