The distinguished Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes  was the featured soloist in the second installment of the Celebrate Japp! Series honoring conductor Japp van Zweden's final season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic.
Celebrated cellist Yo Yo Ma gave a stunning performance to headline New York Philharmonics Opening Gala. The program honored the NY Phils' outgoing President and CEO Deborah Borda, whom Chicago audiences well remember as the former head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Herbert Blomstedt, the former Music Director to San Francisco Symphony, where I first encountered him, is still a force to be reckoned with, even at 95 years of age.
Never an incredibly demonstrative conductor, he still has the unique capability...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has made the Chicago appearance a part of its annual tour for more than 60 years. The legacy of its founder, Alvin Ailey, the company has been hailed as a National Treasure. Auditorium Theatre, built in 1889 by the renowned architectural duo of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, is a National Historic Landmark.
Pop’s undisputed king and queen have devotees who have shown or expressed a willingness to mortgage their homes, max up their credit cards, and even sell body parts just to see them perform live.
Entertainment-Lyric Opera The Factotum at Harris Theatre opens Friday Feb. 3
By Dwight Casimere
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the World Premiere of the new all-Black opera The Factotum Friday Feb. 3 at 7pm at the Harris Theater for Music and...
Entertainment: Lyric Opera of Chicago Hansel and Gretel a sheer delight
Photo:Cory Weaver/LyricOpera
By Dwight Casimere
Glorious! Delightful! Those were just a few of the superlatives emanating from the opening night audience at the conclusion of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s eye-popping revival...
Image: Saint Balthazar, one of the biblical Magi who visited the infant Jesus from a detail from Girolamo da Santacroce's painting 'The Adoration of the Three Kings'
By Dwight Casimere
Christmas mythology is full of images of the Three Kings who...
Moving tribute to Nelson Mandela is centerpiece of program featuring Ailey’s Memoria and Survivors
Photo: The Company performs Revelations (1993)
By Dwight Casimere
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater kicked off the holiday season with a moving perspective of its founder’s landmark works,...
Shostakovich Symphony No. 6, and Tchaikovsky Pathetique round out an explosive program
Photo: Klaus Makela conducts the New York Philharmonic Credit: NYPhil/Chris Lee
By Dwight Casimere
Just as audiences are beginning to delight in the new environment and acoustical design of the...
M/I Homes has acquired land for two new communities in southwest-suburban Plainfield, Ill., which together will bring more than 370 new-construction homes to the area.
