A piercing wind from the north whipped down darkened Dearborn Street, turning noses and fingers to icy lumps and testing the resolve of pedestrians on the opening night of Goodman Theatre’s 46th annual production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol last weekend. As if current events weren’t already enough to chill the holiday spirit! Dreadful, […]
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Performance art on film, 1919, and more
Steppenwolf for Young Adults brings its acclaimed production of 1919, J. Nicole Brooks’s stage adaptation of Eve L. Ewing’s poems about the “Red Summer” race riots and white supremacy in America, from their Halsted Street venue to a short tour this week with Chicago Park District’s “Night Out in the Parks” program, starting tonight at […]
Jessie Montgomery, CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence
In April, violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery was named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new Mead Composer-in-Residence. Montgomery will split her time between New York and Chicago throughout her residency, which started July 1 and runs through June 30, 2024. She gave this interview while in town to prepare for the first concert of the CSO’s […]
Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world
The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 57 and 58
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
CSO takes a coronavirus cut
Chicago Symphony Orchestra institutes across the board cuts in musicians and staff salaries.
Ken-David Masur is the new principal conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago
If the name sounds familiar, it’s because his father, Kurt, was a regular guest conductor of the CSO.
The CSO and the Joffrey, together at last!
But a program of Stravinsky, Ravel, and Rossini at Symphony Center shows neither to its best advantage.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians and Columbia College part-time faculty reach agreements with management
“We had no real choice,” says an orchestra member.
CSO negotiations resume, free concerts continue
The entire orchestra will play together in Woodlawn.
CSO strike update: amid sour notes, another free public concert
As their strike grows increasingly discordant, CSO musicians make music.
Tired of solicitations from big nonprofits? We have just the solution for you!
With the Executive Pay Test, it’s easier than ever to decide which group deserves your hard-earned cash!
Here are 19 shows to get you into the holiday spirit
Christmas trains, elves, bingo, showgirls, and many, many carols, plus the Quranic perspective and Hanukkah goblins.
Getting dizzy at Ravinia when the CSO plays Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo score
The composer gave Hitchcock’s films much of their menace.
Are interest-rate swaps a bad bet?
During a decade of low rates, they were a major expense for the city’s cultural institutions.