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Gluck: Orfeo ed EuridiceDame Jane Glover/Music of the BaroqueSeptember 14-15 Music […]

Sep 01, 2025
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Grant Park Chorus heats things up with exuberant “Carmina Burana” finale

It was a hot, sticky and sweaty Friday evening at Millennium […]

Aug 16, 2025
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September 14

Music of the BaroqueJane Glover, conductorHeidi Stober, sopranoAryeh Nussbaum-Cohen, countertenorHannah De […]

Aug 03, 2025
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Grant Park Orchestra goes deep with a rich, rewarding program on last things

Give credit to Giancarlo Guerrero for seizing the opportunity that Lollapalooza […]

Aug 02, 2025
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A neglected American symphony receives an impassioned revival at Grant Park Music Festival 

A popular Beethoven concerto (aren’t they all?) and an American rarity […]

Jul 31, 2025
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Mäkelä’s new disc offers idiomatic performances of French favorites

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. Ravel: La Valse. Klaus Mäkelä/Orchestre de Paris (Decca). […]

Jul 28, 2025
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Rare Bruch, familiar Beethoven take flight in Vänskä’s Grant Park debut

The Grant Park Music Festival’s podium batting average is impressive, invariably […]

Jul 03, 2025
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August 3

Chicago Symphony OrchestraLaura Jackson, conductorZlatomir Fung, cellistTchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4Tchaikovsky: Variations […]

Jun 30, 2025
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Mahler restored: Guerrero, GPO make a case for composer’s first thoughts in First Symphony

Giancarlo Guerrero’s first concert as artistic director and principal conductor of […]

Jun 21, 2025
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Muti wraps the CSO season with a powerful Verdi Requiem (again)

When the current Chicago Symphony Orchestra season was announced last year, […]

Jun 20, 2025
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