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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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