Chicago’s Guarneri Hall recently announced the presentation of Pierrot Unmasked, a concert series (December 9 & 10, 2024, at 6:30 p.m.) exploring the poetic and theatrical context of Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal melodrama, Pierrot lunaire.
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This holiday season, Chicago’s community of small arts organizations offers audiences a diverse and affordable array of alternatives to the usual holiday fare.
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Rembrandt Chamber Musicians, Chicago’s flagship ensemble covering the full spectrum of classical chamber music, will present a festive “Holiday Baroque”
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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (CYSO) will celebrate the power of music across cultures in support of its award-winning music education
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This season, Chicago Symphony Center transforms into Chicago’s home for the holidays as it decks the halls for concertgoers to experience a festive array of seasonal concerts and special offerings in November and December, 2024.
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announced that their acclaimed contemporary music series CSO MusicNOW will continue in the 2024/25 season with a November 24, 2024, program hosted by Mead Composer-Curator Daniel Bernard Roumain titled “Voices of Migration & Innovation.”
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The Music Institute of Chicago will welcome faculty pianist Matthew Hagle for “Phantoms of Countless Lost,” a program exploring responses to war, on November 9, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in downtown Evanston.
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The members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus (CSC), union members of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) recently reached an agreement on a new four-year contract.
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New Philharmonic, under the baton of Maestro Kirk Muspratt, opens its 2024-2025 Season with “Ravel & Mahler,” at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) with performances 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6.
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Chicago Opera Theater begins its 2024-25 Season with an exciting and aptly timed production of the North American premiere of Leonora. A classical Italian opera composed by Ferdinando Paër to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa and Giacomo Cinti, the plot to Leonora is based on the same story as Beethoven’s later opera Fidelio. Conducted by Chicago favorite and master interpreter of classical repertoire Dame Jane Glover and staring internationally renowned tenor Edgardo Rocha in his Chicago debut, this production will feature stage direction by Chicago Opera Theater’s own Edlis Neeson General Director Lawrence Edelson.
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