Gathering Note

Month: July 2025

  • Music of the Baroque’s Theodora is free to view for a limited time

    In the lead up to Music of the Baroque’s emerald anniversary season, they are making last season’s performances free to view for a limited time. This week, Handel’s Theodora is on offer. Handel’s Theodora isn’t one of his most frequently performed works, but those who know it tend to hold it close. Premiered in 1750…

  • Berkshire Record Outlet calls it quits

    An unfortunate email arrived in my inbox yesterday from the folks who run Berkshire Record Outlet: Dear fellow music-lovers, The time has come to announce our closure within the next sixty days. In the interim, we have a backlog of new and restocked titles that we plan to offer you via our usual updates, in preparation…

  • A second look at The First Homosexuals at Wrightwood 659

  • Summer Listening: Beethoven, Haydn and Rush Hour Concerts

    We are deep into Classical Music Chicago’s Rush Hour Concert season now, and this series continues to prove itself as one of the best deals for classical music lovers in a city starved for a decent chamber music scene. For those who haven’t been able to attend in person, I’ve pulled together a few standout…

  • Exploring Gustave Caillebotte’s unique Impressionism

    As an independently wealthy artist, Gustave Caillebotte had no need to cater to commercial tastes—freeing him to explore his own vision. The Art Institute’s exhibit Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World reveals how he fused Impressionist techniques with strikingly original subject matter: intimate nudes, dynamic scenes of men at work, and unflinching depictions of laborers rarely seen in…