Fritz Reiner

Music review: Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony at Segerstrom Hall

2012-02-18 16:33:51

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Jazz-classical fusion a work in progress

2011-01-16 00:00:00

Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music." But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls "classical music" — the idiom that...

Music review: Zubin Mehta returns to the L.A. Philharmonic*

2009-12-11 16:32:44

Lukas Foss, versatile and prolific American composer, dies at 86

2009-02-03 00:00:00

Lukas Foss, the polyglot American composer, conductor and pianist who directed half a dozen Ojai Music Festivals, led marathon concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as head of composition at UCLA, has died. He was 86. Foss died...

Mitchell Lurie dies at 86; world-renowned clarinetist taught at USC

2008-11-30 00:00:00

Mitchell Lurie, a world-renowned clarinetist and clarinet teacher who taught for many years at USC and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 86. Lurie, who had been in ill health in recent years, died of pneumonia Monday at his...

In 'Maestro,' Felder matures into the role of Bernstein

2011-11-11 09:36:00

A regular visitor to Chicago with a loyal audience he has carefully cultivated over several years, the pianist-showman Hershey Felder has performed solo shows at the Royal George Theatre about George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven. In...

Spring Tributes to Retiring Music Faculty Harris, Hemke and Kujala

2012-05-15 16:35:20

First concert of Theodore Thomas' Chicago Orchestra

2007-12-18 09:56:38

The triumphant final chords of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto brought a storm of applause from the audience, assembled for the first public rehearsal and concert by Chicago's new orchestra. But the sense of triumph that pervaded the Chicago Auditorium...

Classical review, Lang Lang at Ravinia

2002-07-07 00:00:00

Lang Lang is a cherub-cheeked prodigy from China who can burn up the keys with a powerhouse technique all the more remarkable for a pianist who has just turned 20. We all flipped over him in 1999, when he made his joint Ravinia and Chicago Symphony...

Classical review, Janos Starker at Mandel Hall

2002-05-05 00:00:00

Last week the stars must have been perfectly aligned. How else to explain the fact that so many virtuoso cellists converged on Chicago at once? Yo-Yo Ma and Mstislav Rostropovich appeared in separate concerts at Symphony Center (the latter restricting...

Book nooks

1999-09-20 00:00:00

Maybe it is the shorter days. It could be the interesting course descriptions on those brochures that stuff the mailboxes this time of year. September just feels right for starting a new class, hunkering down over a book or finally digging into that some-...

Classical review, Andre Watts at Symphony Center

2001-03-13 00:00:00

At 53, Andre Watts has reached the point in his career where he can focus on the core classics of piano literature and still command the loyalty of a public that fondly remembers him from the early 1960s, when his splashy performance of a Liszt concerto...

Conductor Fritz Reiner transformed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra into an extraordinary precision instrument.

2008-07-14 12:43:00

Fritz Reiner, who transformed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra into an extraordinary precision instrument.

2008-01-04 10:53:12