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Music Spring 2024

Millennium Park Unveils an Avalanche of Performances and Festivities for Big 20th Anniversary Season Celebration

April 30, 2024 Fred Cummings Millennium Park

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) have announced the 2024 Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Summer Season—bringing free world-class arts programming to the Midwest’s number 1 attraction celebrating its milestone anniversary this season. Artist lineups were recently announced for the popular Millennium Park Summer Music Series (most Mondays and Thursdays, July 1 – August 8) featuring some of the biggest names in music including Corinne Bailey Rae, Terrace Martin, Charlie Musselwhite, Buscabulla, GZA, Protoje, Seun Kuti, the NPR Tiny Desk Contest Winner, and others. This seven-part music series showcases a wide range of genres at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Pre-shows for each concert begin at 5:30 p.m.; concerts start at 6:30 p.m.

Classical Music Music Winter 2024

Feast for the Eyes…and Ears

January 5, 2024 Fred Cummings

For most, opera offers a world all its own. Likewise, the source material from which opera is born can seem to encapsulate a universe of possibilities. For fans of new operatic works, however, the subject matter from which composers draw inspiration is often entirely modern.

Autumn 2023 Classical Music Music

Asian Improv aRTs Midwest Celebrates 20 Years of Taiko Legacy

November 9, 2023 Fred Cummings Asian Improve aRTs, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Creative performance is often at its most impactful when it imparts a true message. When that message pays homage to a culture, it becomes even more poignant, and therefore impactful. Directed by multi-instrumentalist and media artist Tatsu Aoki, Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW).

Autumn 2023 Classical Music Music

Michael Tilson Thomas Draws From Past, Present and Future in CSO Program

October 30, 2023 Fred Cummings Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas

Twelve-time Grammy Award winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas offers no ambiguity when he takes the podium. His tempi are exact and his approach to balance, tone and intonation are fiercely deliberate at every hearing. He’s a passionate proponent of some of classical music’s most challenging and relatively modern repertoire, but he’s also a staunch advocate of connecting the dots from past to present and even the future of the music he loves.

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Rembrandt Chamber Musicians announce 2023-2024 Concert Season Programs

September 4, 2023 Fred Cummings Rembrandt Chamber Musicians

Rembrandt Chamber Musicians, Chicago’s flagship ensemble covering the full spectrum of classical chamber music, has announced its 34th concert season,

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Lyric Opera of Chicago announces the 2023 Opera in the Neighborhoods tour

September 4, 2023 Fred Cummings Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Opera in the Neighborhoods program will once again bring a live performance tour to school and

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Chicago’s Third Coast Baroque to Launch “Beyond Baroque” Festival

August 10, 2023 Fred Cummings Epiphany Center for the Arts

In its most ambitious undertaking to date, Chicago’s enterprising early-music ensemble Third Coast Baroque will present Beyond Baroque, a four-day

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Guarneri Hall Launches 5th Anniversary Season with “A Night at the Disco!”

August 10, 2023 Fred Cummings Guarneri Hall

The nonprofit Guarneri Hall, a custom-built classical music venue in the heart of downtown Chicago at 11 E. Adams St.

Arts Music

Fine Arts Building Celebrating 125 Years

March 14, 2023 Isaac Jacobs Chicago Fine Arts Building

Chicago’s historic Fine Arts Building (410 S. Michigan Avenue) celebrates its 125th anniversary this year with two new public exhibits, a self-guided walking tour of significant sites, and special programming that highlights the artists and companies that have made the building an artist haven since its founding in October 1898.

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Chicago Opera Theater Launches Search to Replace General Director Ashley Magnus

March 1, 2023 David Henley

The Board of Directors of Chicago Opera Theater (COT), Chicago’s foremost producer of contemporary and re-imagined opera, announced recently that it will launch a national search to replace Ashley Magnus, Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson General Director, who departed the company effective Friday, March 3, 2023. Magnus leaves the Chicago area to unite her family in Southwest Michigan, where she and her husband opened the River Trade Brewing Company in Constantine, MI. She has served Chicago Opera Theater for 7 ½ years, including as General Director since January 2019. Chicago Opera Theater Director of Development Meaghan Stainback Smallwood has been named the Interim General Director.

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