It was an absolutely brilliant evening at Chicago Symphony Hall Oct. 16 as a full audience was clearly enthralled by two ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has long been famous for its spectacular brass section. Sixteen-strong, it blows away all competitors. But within that ensemble, the brass quintet is an equally ...

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become ...

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Saturday concert, conducted by New York Philharmonic Music Director Jaap van Zweden, was a genre-transcending exploration through the full scope of human emotion. The ...

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Wow, it was so cool, the Long Beach Symphony playing the music of the band Chicago at last Saturday’s POPS concert. I had gone to a previous rock-band-backed-by-symphony-orchestra LBSO presented last ...