Tag: Shostakovich
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Every fall, as Chicago’s classical music season begins to take shape, the question arrives in one form or another: What should we hear? It is a reasonable question. There is too much music to hear everything, and the start of the season comes with an abundance of possibilities. Hannah Edgar has offered her choices for…
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The election last week has been, to put it mildly, numbing. I made it through about a year of the first Trump administration before the despair set in. It was the Jesuits—thank you, St. Joseph and Seattle University—who helped keep my soul intact, offering me a lifeline of reflection and community. And, surprisingly, Leif Ove…