Andrew talks with Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, co-authors of Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations.

Andrew reflects on various anniversaries of Lyric Opera of Chicago as it turns 60.

In this encore presentation from 2011, Andrew celebrates WFMT's 60th Anniversary with music and reflections of years-past.

Andrew talks about Chicago's many fine, small-budget music ensembles in this week's Critic's Choice.  

In the first of a new two-part program, Andrew's guest is Anthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, who shares and discusses music that has been important to him throughout his professional and personal life.

In the first of a new two-part program, Andrew's guest is Anthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, who shares and discusses music that has been important to him throughout his professional and personal life.

In this encore presentation of Critical Thinking from March of 2012, Andrew's guest is Spanish opera and theatre stage director Calixto Bieito, discussing his controversial European opera stagings and his 2012 production and adaptation of Tennessee Will

Andrew recommends Robert Falls's Lyric Opera Don Giovanni.  

Andrew shares a new conversation with Riccardo Muti.  The Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director talks about the orchestra's new recording of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, as well as the its upcoming European tour.    

Andrew talks with Chicago author, art critic, and School of the Art Institute teacher Margaret Hawkins. Her latest novel is Lydia's Party.