When violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and cellist Ken Olsen were asked to play Bruckner’s String Quintet with the Civitas Ensemble in honor of his bicentennial, both Chicago Symphony musicians were befuddled.
Rocker Bruce Springsteen released a video declaring his support for Kamala Harris for president.
On Oct. 4, 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room at age 27.
Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater present two versions of the same story this week: Beethoven’s more famous “Fidelio” and his Italian contemporary Ferdinando Paër’s “Leonora.”
I can still see the final seconds of “Down by the Water.” As she sang the last “Give me my daughter,” she uncurled one of her long arms and seemed to push outward, into the audience, just as the lights cut to black.
The new dates, including Chicago’s Soldier Field on Aug. 28, 2025, are the only North American concerts so far on the tour.
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.
By MEGAN JANETSKY MEXICO CITY (AP) — Riding in a black SUV with tinted windows, lawyer Mariel Colón rolls up to the gates of a remote mansion, strolling past a security guard side-by-side with Emma Coronel, the wife of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Sporting suits and sunglasses, the pair stride into a […]
When we last saw David Yow and his Chicago-based band the Jesus Lizard it was 2018, and Yow, then in his late 50s, opened up the band’s Riot Fest show by walking directly off stage and leaping into the audience. That was for song number one. A year before, the Wall Street Journal, writing about […]
It seemed only a matter of time before she would combust Monday night at the first concert of a sold-out trio of Chicago shows. Baker performed with the kind of extreme intensity that can be difficult to watch.