From annual standbys to intriguing one-offs, Chicago’s cup overfloweth with summer concerts worth your while. A baker’s dozen, and then some, for your perusal: Changings of the guard: The ongoing Muti ...

Chicago opera is, inexplicably, hibernating this winter — the city hosts no staged productions until mid-March, with Lyric Opera’s “La bohème.” Thankfully, other groups aren’t following suit. In fact, ...

Now that the Proms is over, what other classical concerts can we look forward to? There will be tributes to grandees of the classical music world – the American John Adams (who wrote Nixon in China) ...

Monkton composer, arranger and musician Kyle Saulnier is immediately recognizable: His head is shaved, and he sports a wildly untrimmed salt-and-pepper beard. He manages to look both his age — 43 — ...

Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...

Jazz musicians love classical music. The opposite is true to a lesser extent.. The two forms are different in many ways: jazz is democratic with equal participation, musicians compose as they ...

Among other attributes, the current Santa Barbara Symphony (SBS) season can be hailed as a season of premieres of different stripes, sizes, and, especially in the case of this weekend’s model, genres.

A brand-new event makes August 2025 a busy month for music buffs in Door County, which now has its first-ever jazz festival to join two long-running classical music festivals and a daylong blues bash.

From the Harlem Renaissance to modern improvisation, jazz has always been connected to wellness and self-expression.

In early November, a trio of top-notch classically trained musicians took to the stage in front of a full house. With William Ransom accompanying on piano, tenor Timothy Miller and soprano Bethany ...

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There’s a new vitality in the classical music scene—and it would simply not exist without the creativity and support of queer people. A ChamberQUEER performance at Branded Saloon in Brooklyn. Picture ...