The CSO isn’t letting 2011 end without a nod to the great late-Romantic composer, dubbing December “Mahler Month” and filling it with three programs featuring his music. more ›

Ah, the bell tolls for summer: shortening days, screaming locusts, and now the Grant Park Music Festival is set to close its 2010 season this weekend with performances of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony on Friday and Saturday night. more ›

Sometimes a concert looks great on paper, but, for one reason or another, it doesn't meet expectations. Such was the case with the baffling Chicago Symphony Orchestra dance-heavy concert we recommended last month. With strangely mismatched music and long pauses between pieces, including an unusually lengthy intermission, the show never got any momentum going. And while the Hubbard Street dancers were terrific, the audience was filled with their riffraff fans. (That's right, dancers, we're picking a fight, an altercation that'll probably look a lot like this.) more ›

Local ensemble Anaphora has put together another can't-miss mix of new music by local and big name contemporary composers for the final concert of this season's Contemporary Series. more ›