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Dec 8, 2021 · Chicago’s Top 10 moments in classical music, opera and jazz that defined 2021. Best-of lists are always loaded, but summing up a year like 2021 feels particularly foolhardy.
- Hannah Edgar
Jan 6, 2022 · The big band celebrates a big one: Where there’s a jazz season at Symphony Center, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is sure to be close behind. But this visit is special, and not just ...
- Hannah Edgar
- Experimental Sound Studio. Edgewater • 5925 N Ravenswood Ave • Link. Experimental Sound Studio boasts numerous offerings for musicians and music lovers, including a recording space, artistic development, audio gallery, and an intimate performance venue.
- Davis Theater. Lincoln Square • 4614 N Lincoln Ave • Link. The one-time Vaudeville theater-turned movie theater-turned arts center hosts Sound of Silent Film Festival, presented by Access Contemporary Music.
- Constellation Chicago. Roscoe Village • 3111 N Western Ave • Link. In 2013, Constellation Chicago took over the old Viaduct Theater and transformed it into a performance space with a focus on jazz, improvisational, and contemporary classical music.
- Elastic Arts. Logan Square • 3429 W Diversey Ave • Link. With the mission of fostering a community of art and music in the Avondale-Logan Square neighborhoods, Elastic Arts hosts a series of programs that highlight improvised, electro-acoustic, and jazz music.
Dec 12, 2023 · While we’re on the topic of the Chicago Jazz Festival, best comeback: Singer Billy Valentine has toured with “The Wiz,” cracked hit lists with “Money’s Too Tight (to Mention ...
- Hannah Edgar
- Leonard Bernstein
- Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
- Charles Mingus
- George Gershwin
- The Modern Jazz Quartet
- Igor Stravinsky
- Nina Simone
- Miles Davis
Leonard Bernstein was the first American-born conductor to lead a major U.S. orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and was also a prolific composer. Born in 1918 as Louis Bernstein, he began taking piano lessons at 10 years old and was soon quite proficient on the instrument. Later on in life, he would sometimes conduct piano concertos from the pia...
Alice Coltrane, also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was a harpist, pianist, composer, organist, and a prominent figure in the Spiritual Jazz movement. She was born in 1937 in Detroit, MI, and grew up playing the organ in her church. In the 1950s, Coltrane moved to Paris to study both jazz and western classical music with ren...
Charles Mingus was a bassist, composer, and pianist who once described his music as “alive and… about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It’s angry yet it’s real because it knows it’s angry.” A jazz icon of the bebop jazz movement in the mid-20th century, Mingus was influenced by mentor and idol Duke Ellington and contemporaries Charlie ...
George Gershwin was a history-making pianist and composer well known for writing hits like Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, “I Got Rhythm,” and “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess. Born in 1898, he began music lessons at age 10 after his family purchased a piano. Gershwin always wanted to study with Maurice Ravel and you can hear some of the in...
The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ), applauded for their unique blend of traditional jazz and classical music components, consisted of pianist John Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, double bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Connie Kay (for most of its history). The Quartet was founded by members of Dizzy Gillespie’s big band in the late 40s—Lewis, Jackson,...
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer who was a disciple of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the most prolific composers out of the Russian nationalist circle of musicians known as the “Mighty Handful.” Drawing from this influence, and Stravinsky’s fascination with rural Russian culture, he composed folk-inspired and deeply “Russian“ music for comp...
Nina Simone, born in 1933 as Eunice Kathleen Waymon, first aspired to be a classical pianist in her youth, yet is now most well known for her distinctive jazz piano and vocals, as well as her civil rights activism. Following her rejection to the Curtis Institute of Music—one potentially influenced by racism, though that has been denied by Curtis ad...
Miles Davis was prolific trumpet player and musician who paved the way for innovation. Early in his career, Davis was already playing with some of the most influential jazz musicians of the avant-garde such as John Coltrane—a relationship that would help develop Davis’ deeply innovative soundscape. In 1959, he released “Kind of Blue,” a masterpiece...
May 28, 2020 · Appreciation of Classical music, just the same as an appreciation of Jazz or Popular Music does not have to involve years of study but can be tackled on a much more friendly footing. Tuning in to a radio station like Classic FM can be an excellent starting point.
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Jun 2, 2022 · The works of Verdi, Haydn, Mozart, and “Rush Hour Concerts” are sure to entertain classical music fans in the months ahead.
