Andrew conducts an exit interview of sorts with former Chicago Opera Theater General Director, Brian Dickie.

Andrew phones in a report on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from New York City.

Andrew presents a new conversation with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti.

Andrew presents a program of music and readings marking the 30th anniversary of the first reports on June 5, 1981 of what was to become known as AIDS including compositions, performances, and poetry by and about classical musicians and other artists who h

UPDATE: The CSO strike reached its end Monday night, 9/24/2012. As heard on WFMT this morning, Andrew Patner joined Carl Grapentine to discuss the ongoing strike at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. We are posting this report after having received overwhelm

Fall is here, and Andrew is your guide to the musical happenings the season brings.

Memorials to cabaret artists Johnny Frigo and John Wallowitch. (Rebroadcast from 2007)

In the second of a two-part Critic’s Choice (continued from last week), Andrew comments on the demotion of New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn, as well as 100 years of John Cage.

Andrew shares a listen to selections from the late Marvin Hamlisch‘s score to the Pulitzer Prize- and multiple Tony-Award-winning 1975 show A Chorus Line.  He also has some recordings of another artist with surprising parallels to Hamlisch, who di

In the first of a two-part Critic’s Choice (to be continued next week), Andrew comments on the demotion of New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn, as well as 100 years of John Cage.