Thanks to a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art says it plans to greatly expand its live performance offerings in its 300-seat Edlis Neeson Theater.
The concert promoter behind the band’s final show at Soldier Field is behind a new dining and music spot dedicated to all things Grateful Dead.
It has always been a festival of ideas, never more appreciated than now.
Neal Francis and his band will preview tracks from “Return To Zero” on the eve of the album’s release at Lincoln Park club aliveOne.
Here’s a timeline of events surrounding the couple’s deaths:
D’Wayne Wiggins, a founding member of the Grammy-nominated group Tony! Toni! Tone! behind the classic 1990s jams “Anniversary,” “It Never Rains (In Southern California)” and (Lay Your Head on My) Pillow,” has died.
Christopher Theofanidis’s “Indigo Heaven” was well worth the wait. And between the Theofanidis and Ravel works, Thursday’s program was practically a woodwind expo.
It’s hard to believe, for all the hubbub around Klaus Mäkelä’s hiring as the 11th music director of the Chicago Symphony, that next season will mark just the halfway point between his tenure and Riccardo Muti’s. The orchestra’s 2025-26 season, announced Wednesday, at least reflects the passing of the baton far better than the current. […]
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 82.
Could the concert have benefited from better preparation? Probably, but her genuine spontaneity in playing the decades-old album was worth every rough moment.