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Fall music preview: Chicago jazz greats coming home
Chicago always has produced jazz giants, larger-than-life figures whose art towers over that of mere mortals. Who are today's Chicago jazz giants? Following is an annotated guide to some of the titans who will be performing during the fall season: Art...
Tags: John Abercrombie, Michigan Avenue, Entertainment, Festive Events, Arts
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Chicago singer Tony Adriacchi loved performing
In the 1980s, Tony Andriacchi was almost as famous in Chicago as his heroes Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra were around the world. Audiences queued up to hear one of the most lustrous male voices to come out of this city, an instrument that Andriacchi...
Tags: Poetry, Entertainment, Sting, Liza Minnelli, Mel Torme
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A buoyant, stylistically wide-ranging weekend in Chicago jazz
Any doubts that the fall season has gotten fully underway should be swept aside by this weekend's nearly brisk lineup of jazz offerings: "Women of Chicago Jazz Piano": Jazz listeners tend to think of Chicago as a tenor saxophone town, and for good...
Tags: Entertainment, Gene Ammons, Music, Hyde Park, Wynton Marsalis
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'La Boheme' star Ana Maria Martinez is no diva offstage
The saga of how Ana Maria Martinez resolved her career conflicts, shed her inhibitions and wound up as one of the most sought-after operatic artists of her generation might make an interesting little made-for-TV drama. The Puerto Rico-born soprano...
Tags: Poetry, Entertainment, Placido Domingo, Fine Artists, Civic Opera House
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Jazz 'Messiah' swings back to town
More than a decade ago, vocalist Rodrick Dixon traveled to Lincoln Center in New York to sing a piece of music he couldn't get out of his head. He then decided he had to persuade someone to stage it in Chicago. This weekend, "Too Hot to Handel: The...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Entertainment, Christmas, Music, Arts and Culture
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Winter classical music preview: Diverse events, from 'Boheme' to Boulez
The period from the new year through the end of March invariably includes some of the most highly anticipated events of Chicago's classical music season. Here are 10 such events, listed in chronological order: Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo...
Tags: A Streetcar Named Desire (movie), Poetry, Michigan Avenue, Entertainment, Andrew Davis
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Winter theater 2013: 10 shows for the cold, from classic 'Caesar' to 'Other Desert Cities'
With Scrooge back under wraps, it's time for the 2013 winter theater season to begin in earnest. There's an especially strong slate of classical works opening between now and the end of March, but the offerings also are as diverse as ever. Among the...
Tags: Entertainment, Austin Pendleton, Music, Arts and Culture, Michael Finley
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A searingly honest 'Rain' pours across the stage in Oak Park
At one point in "When the Rain Stops Falling," the deeply moving Australian play by Andrew Bovell now in a richly textured and searingly honest production from director John Gawlik at the Circle Theatre in Oak Park, a battered and melancholy young woman...
Tags: Celebrities, Australia, Abusive Behavior, Arts and Culture
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival roars into its sixth season
Of all the jazz soirees that crowd the calendar in Chicago each year, none uses the urban environment as creatively as the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which runs Saturday and Sunday in multiple locations. At what other time of the year, after all, are you...
Tags: Entertainment, Woodlawn (Chicago, Illinois), Festive Events, Music, Hyde Park
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'Ann' gets Broadway berth
"Ann," the dramatic tribute to the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards by actress Holland Taylor, has announced dates for Broadway this season. The one-woman show, which played Chicago's Bank of America Theatre in 2011 and subsequently played the Kennedy...
Tags: Washington, DC, Holland Taylor, Bank of America Corp.
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Wynton Marsalis plays homage to Von Freeman
Just moments after Wynton Marsalis took the stage of Orchestra Hall on Tuesday night he addressed a subject on many people's minds: Chicago tenor saxophonist Von Freeman, who died earlier this month at age 88. "He was a legend," Marsalis told a crowded...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Jazz (genre), Music, Culture
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Nonstop week of music surrounds Chicago Jazz Festival
Though the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival surely has its flaws, it generates tremendous energy and interest for America's greatest gift to the arts: jazz. The festival proper features major shows at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 31 at Pritzker...
Tags: Entertainment, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Chicago Jazz Fest, Millennium Park
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