Hannah Edgar

June 1, 2024 | By Hannah Edgar, Musical America Growing up in coastal Georgetown, SC (population: 8,500), Kedrick Armstrong became his

This week, the Grant Park Music Festival notches two major anniversaries: its 90th season, and its 25th and final year led by artistic director and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar.

The Art Institute of Chicago will soon return a fragment of architectural ornament to the Thai government.

This week, the Chicago Symphony closes its season with a program that looks to its future while glancing at its past.

After two weeks led by outgoing music director Carlos Kalmar, the Grant Park Music Festival is heating up the search for his successor, in progress since he announced his departure in 2021.

Rather than dive into an evening-length program, he put forward a short yet dense exploration of two pieces: Joan Tower’s “1920/2019” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5.

The Opera Festival of Chicago makes no little plans. Now in its fourth season, the company has plugged the summer opera void here with lean realizations of Italian repertoire.

In grim times such as these, an all-American program can feel as much like an elegy as a celebration. So it was Friday, followed Saturday with a program headlined by South African cellist Abel Sela…

After teasing the initiative earlier this year, on Tuesday Brookfield Zoo Chicago announced further details for a long-term renovation project pegged to its centenary in 2034.

There are many ways of knowing Karen Slack. Maybe you happened upon her pearly, supercharged voice at the Grant Park Music Festival's