The Winchendon Music Festival will host a series of concerts this spring and fall. According to a community announcement, the festival has showcased local, national and international artists since ...

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, ...

The city that produced such current and former musical pioneers as composer Philip Glass, left-handed pianist Leon Fleischer, ragtime impresario Eubie Blake, and singer Billie Holliday is a city that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miles Davis (pictured in 1969) disliked the term ‘jazz’, which was burdened with the disreputable origins of the art form - David ...

LOS ANGELES — Billy Childs was all smiles in February as he walked to the backstage media center at Crypto.com Arena, cradling his sixth and most recent Grammy Award. “I always had in mind that I didn ...

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 ...

This weekend at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Andrew Grams stood before the New World Symphony as the guest ensemble with the ease of someone who understands both the weight of history and the thrill of ...

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 ...

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis' coming season will deliver the classical masterpieces audiences have come to expect. But across the fall of 2025 and first half of 2026, several ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs. A 1934 portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van ...

Condolences to everyone’s calendar. Despite sobering news of canceled summer festivals and slashed National Endowment for the Arts grants, Chicago summer — knock wood — looks to be as busy as ever.