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In a report filed by Norman Lebrecht, one of the Dutch orchestras threatened with extinction by 50% government cuts has rallied some of the country’s…

Technology has certainly made music readily accessible to most all of us.  The author of Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie, believes concert halls are…

A while back, my wife and I were at the movies. A critical moment in the film approached. The lead character is about to speak and...the phone rang.…

George Gershwin was born on this date in 1898, and his music is still embraceable by lovers of both jazz and classical music. It's brash, suave,…

Hungarian-born conductor Georg Solti would have been 100 yesterday, and we're celebrating his recording legacy this week on Symphony @ 7. One of the most…

We continue our week long celebration of conductor Georg Solti on Classical 101 this evening on Symphony @ 7 with Sir Georg leading the Chicago Symphony…

When Mark O'Connor began demonstrating his innate talent on the violin, mandolin, and guitar at a very early age, you would expect to then hear about a…

Paul Chihara is a Japanese-American who grew up in a relocation camp during WWII, first in Idaho and later in Seattle. Even with the indignities suffered…

I've known the 5th Symphony of Tchaikovsky for years. Yet I am always surprised when early in the 2nd movement, I hear this:…

As part of the great musical send-off to the Summer Olympics in London, there was a preview of music to come in 2016 as part of the Rio de Janeiro Summer…