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Last week, our own Chicago Symphony Orchestra ended a successful tour of six European cities, including stops in the music capitals of Salzburg, Paris and Vienna. The orchestra also paid first-time visits to Luxembourg and Dresden, Germany.… Read more

It’s been almost 50 years since I took an Art History 101 course at Fordham University. I didn’t know it at the time but that experience would shape my lifelong interest in Art ever since.

I still remember the charismatic… Read more

I landed in this lovely hillside town of Vence, France on the famed Cote d’Azur uncertain on what I’d find in terms of musical offerings. I’ve happily discovered that these lovely hillside towns are alive with the… Read more

For the past 16 months, I have been blogging about the arts from Chicago. It has been called, and rightfully so, the great American city. In the past quarter-century, it also has been recognized as one of the country’s cultural… Read more

Last week, I wrote in the Chicago Tribune, “Union League’s art collection turns 125,” about the important, but relatively little-known, collection of mostly American Art at Chicago’s Union League Club. The collection, which has nearly 800 works including a priceless… Read more

Not just flowers but the arts are also in full bloom in May. If you are scouting for something different to do this month besides the old stand-bys (movies, touring museums or club-crawling), here are six events sure to inject… Read more

April’s arrival not only means breaking out of winter’s frosty grip but the approaching end of the 2011-12 cultural season. Yet, rather than winding down, the arts are kicking into high gear. This month and next feature such newsworthy events… Read more

What can an opera, whose composer died over 250 years ago, teach us about human suffering? Or what can a famous Greek playwright, who lived 25 centuries ago, say about modern warfare, long before the advent of guns, bombs and… Read more

Of all the art forms I enjoy, dance is the one I get to see least. Simply a matter of allocating my time among Chicago’s rich cultural offerings and my preference for art, music and theater. However, I hold strong… Read more

Over the last decade, musical organizations have gone public with their concern at the absence of the under-30 generation in the audience for classical concerts. Orchestras and conductors around the country blamed the lack of music education in school while… Read more