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It features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Chorus along with guest performers and conductors, and is one of the only free outdoor classical-music concert series in the US. [2] The Festival is a non-profit organization. [3] Live performances have been a Chicago tradition since 1931, when mayor Anton Cermak suggested free ...
The naming of Jay Pritzker Pavilion was a cause for protests. The new pavilion was built as a replacement for Grant Park's decades-old Petrillo Music Shell, which had a long history of hosting free music events and was named after James C. Petrillo, a labor union leader who started free concerts in Grant Park. When the original bandshell was ...
Performance Today was created by National Public Radio (NPR), and went on the air in 1987. The program was founded by NPR vice president for cultural programming Dean Boal, who gave Performance Today its name, and who, along with NPR colleagues Doug Bennet, Jane Couch, Ellen Boal, and retired Baldwin Piano Company president Lucien Wulsin, secured the series' initial funding.
WFMT (98.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a classical music radio format. It is managed by Chicago's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station WTTW's owner, Window to the World Communications, Inc. WFMT seeks donations on the air and on its website.
NCB has also released ten recordings on CD, seven studio recordings and three live recordings from the annual Midwest Clinic. In 2011, Chicago classical radio station, WFMT, broadcast two programs of live performances from NCB's concert series at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.
In addition to his duties as host, Tait produced radio documentaries, including From Stock to Solti, about the history of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. [2] He was also on the panel that selected recordings for inclusion in the orchestra's CD set of archival recordings, Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Twentieth Century: Collector's Choice.
WILL-FM's HD2 digital subchannel is a 24-hour music stream with the C-24 classical music service, along with WILL-FM's locally produced classical music shows. This programming is relayed by translator station W266AF 101.1 MHz in Urbana, but moved exclusively to a webstream on February 1, 2024.
WNIU (90.5 FM) is a public radio station licensed to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. It is part of Northern Public Radio along with WNIJ. It primarily features classical music programming. WNIU broadcasts in the hybrid digital HD format. [3] [4] Established in 1954, WNIU serves the Northern Illinois region.