For a time, Chicago Symphony music director emeritus Riccardo Muti planned to end the 2024/25 downtown season with Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust,” not heard at Orchestra Hall since 2008.

Dawn Wolski’s illness has made it impossible for her to continue working, thus depriving her of health insurance. Anyone who wishes to augment their past applause for what she and Mateusz have given ...

“I believe in nothing.” Listening to Verdi’s Requiem would certainly suggest otherwise, its 85-minute journey from “Introit and Kyrie” and “Dies irae” - via “Offertory”, “Sanctus”, “Agnus Dei” and ...

When Eugene Jones founded the Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra in 1966, he may never have imagined the chorus continuing for 60 years. Jones, who died in 2003, was the first African American ...