Andrew reviews Lyric Opera of Chicago’s staging of Rossini’s Barber of Seville, comment’s on the extension of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Riccardo Muti’s contract, and more.

Andrew speaks with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti in the first of a new, two-part conversation.  

Andrew comments on the lives of Deborah Sobol and Pete Seeger.  

Andrew presents the second and concluding part of “Black Sabbath,” a survey of Black American recording artists performing Yiddish and other Jewish songs.  Tonight including Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, The Temptations, and Johnny Mathis. &n

Andrew comments on the life of Maestro Claudio Abaddo, who died Monday at the age of 80.

We present “Lincoln and Music,” a favorite from our series of “Abraham Lincoln Reconsidered” programs–a co-production with the Chicago History Museum with generous funding from the Motorola Foundation.  

Andrew review’s VOX 3 Collective’s Chicago premiere of Denmark’s national opera, Carl Neilsen’s Maskarade.

Andrew presents a new conversation with Bernard Haitink discussing his 60th anniversary year as a conductor of leading international orchestras.

Andrew looks back at 2013 and provides his top ten.

Andrew brings you more from James Thurber’s “Fables for Our Time.”