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Tchaik rarity and violin prodigy take Lake Forest Symphony by storm

This weekend’s Lake Forest Symphony concerts are the penultimate performances that […]

Mar 16, 2013
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A tour de force Chicago Symphony debut by a different Barenboim

Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony: that’s a combination we haven’t experienced […]

Mar 15, 2013
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Ferris Chorale presents the American premiere of Grayston Ives’ powerful Requiem

Two years in the making, the William Ferris Chorale’s “Sacred & […]

Feb 27, 2013
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KLR Trio bridges three centuries of music with a tour de force performance at Mandel Hall

The Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio is in the enviable position of […]

Feb 23, 2013
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Hewitt’s Bach, unsurprisingly, provides the highlights in mixed recital

Perhaps no major pianist before the public today is more associated […]

Feb 11, 2013
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Ars Viva’s Mahler movingly memorializes recent tragedy 

With the country still immersed in the shadow of twenty children […]

Jan 14, 2013
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“Second City Guide to the Opera” provides quirky laughs, yet little opera for newbies

If the principal goal of “The Second City Guide to the […]

Jan 06, 2013
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Bach and Mozart make splendid Rembrandt holiday fare

With music of the season being so paramount amongst programmers this […]

Dec 11, 2012
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Ars Viva serves up subtle and brilliant Sibelius and Shostakovich

Alan Heatherington has long been a champion of the music of […]

Nov 05, 2012
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Back at last, Perahia redefines the familiar with supreme artistry

It has been a few seasons since Chicago has been treated […]

Oct 15, 2012
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