Gathering Note

Notes from the concert hall

Tag: Classical Music Chicago

  • Mäkelä’s heroic survey in Chicago

    Klaus Mäkelä is back in Chicago for one program before taking the orchestra on a week-long tour of the Northeast. A performance at Carnegie Hall—featuring the same program he conducted this weekend, a survey of two heroic depictions in Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite—anchors the tour. This isn’t Mäkelä’s first journey to Carnegie…

  • 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…