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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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Bach Week Festival returns to Evanston for 50th, final anniversary

April 24, 2024

Evanston’s perennial classical music festival is coming “Bach” for its grand finale. Bach Week Festival will celebrate its 50th and final season in a two-weekend event around the Chicago area,...

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Avdeeva, Sokhiev, CSO evoke winter memories with Chopin, Tchaikovsky

April 23, 2024

Throughout their lyrical renditions of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 on April 20, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, conductor Tugan Sokhiev and Chicago Symphony Orchestra members...

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Seong-Jin Cho and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra dazzle with Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Kernis

February 12, 2024

Saturdays are always a busy time for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. But, this past Saturday, the Symphony Center was especially packed for Seong-Jin Cho: winner of the prestigious Chopin Competition in...

Jaap van Zweden luminously led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony Saturday.

From darkness to light: Jaap van Zweden luminously leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

October 17, 2023

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Saturday concert, conducted by New York Philharmonic Music Director Jaap van Zweden, was a genre-transcending exploration through the full scope of human emotion. The...

Liu: The timeless message of Beethoven’s Ninth

Liu: The timeless message of Beethoven’s Ninth

March 2, 2022

In the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s towering Symphony No. 9, he sets his transcendental music to the text of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “An die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”) to impart a...

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