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Photos of LaRob Rafael on left (backlit) and Steve Wallace on right (wearing a gray cap and vest, white shirt, and red tie)
Posted inOn Culture

‘Undying Love’: the Opera

by Deanna Isaacs November 10, 2021November 12, 2021

Composer and tenor Steve Wallace says the first time he heard the Nas song “Undying Love,” the final track on the rapper’s 1999 album I Am . . ., “I immediately saw it as a verismo one-act with chamber orchestra, but I stored it away for a later time.” It wasn’t until 2014, when Wallace […]

Posted inMusic

Remembering Triad Radio, where the usual was unusual

by Robert Marovich July 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Triad Radio, Chicago’s pioneering experiment in commercial free-form radio, left the airwaves in 1977. Now longtime program director Saul Smaizys is moving its archives online.

Posted inCity Life

The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 67

by Reader staff May 26, 2020August 18, 2021

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.

Posted inMusic

Mariachi Herencia de Mexico turns Chicago schoolkids into chart-busting stars

by Peter Margasak May 23, 2018August 18, 2021

The Mariachi Heritage Foundation has partnered with CPS to create a student band that’s already played Kennedy Center, toured internationally, and opened for the likes of Lila Downs and Los Lobos.

Posted inBlogs

WFMT boss Steve Robinson signs off today

by Deanna Isaacs September 30, 2016August 18, 2021

The classical music station’s general manager leaves after 16 years at the helm.

Posted inMusic

George and Gerry Armstrong were Chicago’s first family of folk in the 50s and 60s

by Steve Krakow September 13, 2016August 18, 2021

Folk-music power couple George and Gerry Armstrong helped launch the Old Town School and the University of Chicago Folk Festival.

Posted inBlogs

Celebrate the life of critic Andrew Patner tonight at Orchestra Hall

by Deanna Isaacs March 18, 2015August 18, 2021

Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera Orchestra play in honor of the classical music critic.

Posted inBlogs

Critic and ‘gregarious loner’ Andrew Patner passes away at 55

by Michael Miner February 3, 2015August 18, 2021

The local culture critic dies suddenly

Posted inBlogs

When you call someone a jagoff, what exactly are you trying to say?

by Michael Miner January 13, 2015August 18, 2021

A thoughtful debate about jagoffs.

Studs Terkel in his Chicago office in 1985 after hearing he had won a Pulitzer Prize.
Posted inArts & Culture

Our guide to Let’s Get Working, a tribute to Studs Terkel

by Taylor Tolbert May 6, 2014August 18, 2021

The U. of C. pays tribute to Studs Terkel with a weekend-long festival of readings, screenings, and notable appearances.

Posted inMusic

The Secret History of Chicago Music: Rob Riley & Domenic Bucci

by Chicago Reader May 1, 2014August 18, 2021

SNL alumnus Rob Riley and coconspirator Domenic Bucci cut a novelty record about the 1979 blizzard.

Thee Oops, Happy Charlie
Posted inMusic

In Rotation: Rebecca Valeriano-Flores of Negative Scanner on time traveling with the Fall

by Kevin Warwick December 30, 2013August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Rebecca Valeriano-Flores of Negative Scanner and composer Estlin Usher

Posted inBlogs

Contemporary classical music on your radio all day today at WFMT

by Peter Margasak May 13, 2013August 19, 2021

WFMT devotes a full day to classical music of the last 25 years.

Veteran journalist Rick Kogan: "I have never had any kind of exit strategy or career path. I don't quite live paycheck to paycheck, but close enough."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist

by Michael Miner May 1, 2013August 19, 2021

Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist.

Posted inMusic

Three Beats: The first Thirsty Ear

by Peter Margasak, Monica Kendrick and Leor Galil August 6, 2012August 19, 2021

A new-music festival at the Bottle, plus new albums from death-metal pioneers Master and DJ-producer Tony Trimm

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