Champaign native Christopher Otto and the other members of the JACK Quartet, which he co-founded, will learn next month whether they can add a Grammy Award to their list of accolades.
As the fall concert season ends, The Champaign-Urbana Symphony, conducted by Stephen Alltop, made its return to Foellinger Great Hall with a varied, tuneful and memory inducing “Welcome Joy” holiday concert on Dec 9.
If you go to St. Matthew Catholic Church’s 4 p.m. Christmas Eve mass tonight, you’ll hear something that’s been missing since the start of the pandemic last year — the bell choir.
Meet Noah Kublank, who wowed the Illini crowd by playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" on his violin.
The end of the UIUC semester is crunch time for everybody, including the students who play in the UI Symphony Orchestra. At the beginning of the Tuesday, Dec. 7 concert, conductor William Eddins spoke briefly of the efforts to bring off a concert which joins the talents and work of the UI Or…
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Ian Hobson and the Sinfonia da Camera concluded their fall season Dec. 3 with an all-Camille Saint-Saëns concert in Smith Memorial Hall. The hall has a fine organ, so the choice of that venue made possible the playing, on a real organ, of Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony (No. 3 in C Minor).”
On Nov. 19, the University of Illinois Symphony, conducted by William Eddins, gave a very enjoyable concert at which the major works were Bela Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.”
After a life on the road and on the West Coast, musician and painter Jerry Winters has found a community that has helped him process grief in small-town Arthur.
As this autumn of renewal moves along, various University of Illinois music groups once more meet live audiences face to face.
For more than five decades, the Coles County Barbershop Chorus has been entertaining folks in the area.
The home of Illinois basketball only recently began hosting concerts again after a long pandemic pause.
After half a century on the job, Ted Swanson said last year's break was "for the birds."
On Nov. 4, the Jupiter Quartet, in residence at the University of Illinois, was back in the Foellinger Great Hall, and they received a very warm welcome from an audience who regard the quartet as old friends.
At 8:15 a.m. today, Alli Adams will join “Mike In the Morning” host Mike Haile to unveil a new set of jingles on WHMS 97.5-FM that have been in the works for two months.
One of the University of Illinois School of Music’s chamber groups, Concerto Urbano, gave their first public concert since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic at Smith Memorial Hall on Oct. 24. School of Music Professor Charlotte Mattax Moersch is the director of Concerto Urbano, and she …
The contemporary Christian band will take their latest show to State Farm Center on Saturday.
DANVILLE — The Fischer Theatre in downtown Danville will host “A Swingin’ Christmas” concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, performed by the Danville Symphony Orchestra.
The University of Illinois Symphony program of Oct. 22 was balanced between the very familiar Symphony No. 5 of Peter Tchaikovsky and what was surely a Champaign-Urbana premier, the Fifth Symphony of widely celebrated American composer John Harbison.
The Sinfonia da Camera came back to Foellinger Great Hall on Oct 16, and for this special occasion, music director Ian Hobson, displayed his double talents as pianist and conductor in a dazzling performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.”
Monticello and several other local marching bands will perform for the final time this year at the University of Illinois Marching Band Competition, closing out a complicated season.
On Thursday, the Verona Quartet gave what was for me the first guest concert in the Foellinger Great Hall since the COVID-19 interruption a year and a half ago. The Verona group, winner of the 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, is made up of violinists Jonathan Ong and Dorothy Ro, violist Abigail…
One of the first major concerts at David S. Palmer Arena since the start of the pandemic will feature an entertainer better known for his acting. Danville, get ready for Kevin Costner & Modern West’s “Tales from Yellowstone” tour.
The Illinois Wind Symphony, conducted by Stephen G. Peterson, Director of Bands at the University of Illinois, came back after a long absence Oct. 3 at Krannert Center’s Foellinger Great Hall.
The Sinfonia da Camera, led by Ian Hobson, resumed public concerts on Sept. 25 in Smith Memorial Hall on the UI campus. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hobson had valiantly tried to offer performances. He played a largely solo recital outdoors under a tent, and he organized a series of chamber…
The Virginia Theatre is ready to re-open with a fresh look and sound, thanks in part to a pandemic that closed the facility since March 2020. “We made good use of the downtime,” Mitch Marlow says.
Among those sharing memories: drama and musical directors from Champaign Central, Urbana, Monticello, Arcola, Rantoul, Salt Fork, DeLand-Weldon, Westville and ALAH.
There was a breakthrough Tuesday evening in Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
This week's panel: REO bandmates Bruce Hall and Dave Amato, Heart's Nancy Wilson, Alison Krauss' mom, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks, UI President Tim Killeen and local guitar heroes Carrie Chandler, Holly Rushakoff, Gloria Roubal, Brandon Washington, Kenna Mae Reiss, Mike Ingram and Ricky Bright.
The Champaign-Urbana Symphony is back, after 554 days since its last pre-COVID-19 concert. That number was mentioned by conductor Stephen Alltop, and I am sure he had been counting, much like the orchestral players and the audience been watching the calendar and waiting for concert life to resume.
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