by Dennis Polkow | November 13, 2025New CSO Chorus Master Donald Palumbo’s First Chicago Christmas Concert and More Holiday Music to Knowell A new vision leads the Chicago Symphony’s annual “Merry, Merry Chicago!” program. Plus two other highlights of the holiday classical season.
by Dennis Polkow | June 11, 2024Handel With Care: Handel Expert Christian Curnyn Leads Haymarket Opera In “La Resurrezione”
by Mark Thomas Ketterson | May 7, 2024Delightful and Enlightening: A Preview of “Heaven and Earth” via Music of the Baroque
by Dennis Polkow | December 19, 2023Home for the Holidays: Lyric Opera’s Sir Andrew Davis Returns to the Chicago Symphony with a New “Messiah”
by Dennis Polkow | October 17, 2023Soothing A Slap: Dinis Sousa Steps In To Tour for Contrite Conductor
by Dennis Polkow | January 9, 2015Offbeat: An Eclectic “Messiah” for a Diverse Holiday, Muti on Scriabin as the Next Mahler
