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Tonight! The Grant Park Music Festival begins in style with Leonard Bernstein’s jazzy, Latin-inspired "Symphonic Dances"...
06/10/2026

Tonight! The Grant Park Music Festival begins in style with Leonard Bernstein’s jazzy, Latin-inspired "Symphonic Dances" from West Side Story. Tune in at 6:30 pm CT.

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero opens the 2026 Festival season in style with Leonard Bernstein’s jazzy, Latin-inspired Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Joan Tower’s Made in America and Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1 in One Movement continue the celebration of...

Pianist Lucas Amory performs works by Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, Germaine Tailleferre, and Claude Debussy: today at 12:15 pm...
06/10/2026

Pianist Lucas Amory performs works by Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, Germaine Tailleferre, and Claude Debussy: today at 12:15 pm CT.

Pianist Lucas Amory performs works by W.A. Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, Germaine Tailleferre and Claude Debussy, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago. Lucas Amory is currently pursuing his Masters in Piano Performance at the Juilliard School in the studio of Julian Martin and Sh...

Beautiful works by Felix Mendelssohn and Olivier Messiaen: tonight at 10 pm CT.
06/09/2026

Beautiful works by Felix Mendelssohn and Olivier Messiaen: tonight at 10 pm CT.

Between 1829 and 1845, Felix Mendelssohn completed one of his most famous bodies of piano works, the Songs without Words. It is paired with another set of piano works constructed nearly 100 years later: the seven-part suite Visions de l’Amen by Olivier Messiaen.

Exploring Mozart’s six “Haydn” Quartets, dedicated and lovingly handed to Joseph Haydn. Tune in weeknights at 7 pm CT.
06/08/2026

Exploring Mozart’s six “Haydn” Quartets, dedicated and lovingly handed to Joseph Haydn. Tune in weeknights at 7 pm CT.

Mozart’s six “Haydn” Quartets were dedicated and lovingly handed to Joseph Haydn, like a father entrusting his sons to a friend to protect and guide them. When Haydn first started composing for the string quartet, the first violinist was the star, actually standing in front of the other three ...

Conductor Marin Alsop guides the SF Symphony through an exhilarating journey, joined by Venezuelan composer and pianist ...
06/08/2026

Conductor Marin Alsop guides the SF Symphony through an exhilarating journey, joined by Venezuelan composer and pianist Gabriela Montero. Tonight at 10 pm CT.

Conductor Marin Alsop guides the SF Symphony through an exhilarating journey that spans the United States, Venezuela, and Mexico. Gabriela Ortiz’s playfully seductive Antrópolis sets the stage while the Venezuelan composer and pianist Gabriela Montero performs her Piano Concerto No. 1, “Latin.....

Spectacular American jazz trumpeter and composer John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was Studs Terkel’s guest in this original ...
06/05/2026

Spectacular American jazz trumpeter and composer John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was Studs Terkel’s guest in this original WFMT program from June 1982. Hear it again tonight at 11 pm CT!

The spectacular American jazz trumpeter and composer John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (1917 – 1993) was Studs Terkel’s guest in this original WFMT program from June 1982.

Dimitri Mitropoulos and Lorin Maazel were both Music Directors of the New York Philharmonic. Enjoy recordings that both ...
06/04/2026

Dimitri Mitropoulos and Lorin Maazel were both Music Directors of the New York Philharmonic. Enjoy recordings that both conductors made throughout their time with the orchestra. Tonight at 10 pm CT.

Dimitri Mitropoulos and Lorin Maazel were two towering figures of 20th-century classical music. Though they lived decades apart, they both served as Music Directors of the New York Philharmonic: Mitropoulos from 1949-1958, and Lorin Maazel from 2002-2009. Tonight’s program samples a selection of r...

Enjoy a NEW selection of albums, featuring renewed interest in the works of Emilie Mayer plus celebrations of other favo...
06/04/2026

Enjoy a NEW selection of albums, featuring renewed interest in the works of Emilie Mayer plus celebrations of other favorite composers.

A selection featuring renewed interest in the works of Emilie Mayer, as well as celebrations of other favorite composers.

Tonight on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: an oratorio featuring the legend of Saint Vitus, with a cruel Roman empero...
06/03/2026

Tonight on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: an oratorio featuring the legend of Saint Vitus, with a cruel Roman emperor, exorcism, miracles, and martyrdom. 10 pm CT.

The legend of Saint Vitus, with a cruel Roman emperor, exorcism, miracles, and martyrdom in the Colosseum, was not enough drama for 17th-century Roman nobility; it needed a love story too!

Anwar Nasir follows in the footsteps of previous Grant Park Music Festival CEO Paul Winberg, who retired after 14 years ...
06/03/2026

Anwar Nasir follows in the footsteps of previous Grant Park Music Festival CEO Paul Winberg, who retired after 14 years with the organization.

Anwar Nasir follows in the footsteps of previous CEO Paul Winberg, who retired on April 30, 2026 after 14 years with the organization.

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