Hannah Edgar

The young conductor's hiring was made official earlier this week. His following concerts in Chicago were special for audiences and musicians alike.

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Review: In thrilling Shostakovich, CSO music director designate Klaus Mäkelä shows 2027 can’t come soon enough

April 5, 2024 at 4:50 p.m.

The young conductor's hiring was made official earlier this week. His following concerts in Chicago were special for audiences and musicians alike.

At age 28, he is the fastest-rising conductor in decades. He will be the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 11th music director, effective in the 2027-28 concert season, following Riccardo Muti.

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CSO appoints Klaus Mäkelä as the youngest music director in orchestra’s history

April 3, 2024 at 7:09 a.m.

At age 28, he is the fastest-rising conductor in decades. He will be the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 11th music director, effective in the 2027-28 concert season, following Riccardo Muti.

His Symphony Center appearance on Saturday — his 14th in 26 years — plotted the best path possible with a concert that acknowledged Hancock’s ubiquity while resisting a best-hits roadshow.

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Review: Herbie Hancock and a sterling sextet ignite Symphony Center Jazz

March 31, 2024 at 2:07 p.m.

His Symphony Center appearance on Saturday — his 14th in 26 years — plotted the best path possible with a concert that acknowledged Hancock’s ubiquity while resisting a best-hits roadshow.

Led by guest conductor Susanna Mälkki, CSO principal flutist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson debuted Lowell Liebermann’s second flute concerto.

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Review: At CSO, a rare world premiere shines against an unbalanced Mahler 4

March 25, 2024 at 4:12 p.m.

Led by guest conductor Susanna Mälkki, CSO principal flutist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson debuted Lowell Liebermann’s second flute concerto.

“A Love Supreme” is Norman Teague’s ode to himself. But not the Teague of today. He’s thinking of the Teague of several yesterdays ago.

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Norman Teague’s ode to Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” overflows, ecstatically, into Elmhurst’s Mies van der Rohe house

March 21, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

“A Love Supreme” is Norman Teague’s ode to himself. But not the Teague of today. He’s thinking of the Teague of several yesterdays ago.

Maureen and Bob Carson pour wine while picnicking on the lawn before opening night of the 87th Chicago Symphony Orchestra Residency at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park on July 14, 2023. (Michael Schmidt/For Pioneer Press)

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Ravinia Festival 2024: James Taylor and debuts by Ben Platt, Samara Joy, but Breaking Barriers shrinks

March 15, 2024 at 11:38 a.m.

Also the Violent Femmes will play their debut album with Chicago Philharmonic, and the CSO’s opening weekend is genuinely stellar.

“Spiritual jazz” has become an ever-squishier genre tag, but for the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, no other name fits.

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The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble is 50. But bandleader Kahil El’Zabar is more interested in the next 50 years

March 13, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

“Spiritual jazz” has become an ever-squishier genre tag, but for the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, no other name fits.

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