What distinguishes one top-rank orchestra from another? For the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, it’s long been the brass. The Chicago Symphony's Brass Is World-Famous. Hear It Blast. M Michael Cooper ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra left the sold-out audience in Foellinger Great Hall breathless Tuesday evening following its performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” Known ...

The Chicago Symphony’s return to Ravinia? Make it double. On July 11 and 12, the orchestra and chief festival conductor Marin Alsop opened its season with two twinned programs. Both began with ...

The symphonies of Mahler, if they're played well enough to sound like Mahler, are a kind of spectacle -- of grand natural spaces, human glory, that vague thing we like to think of as transcendence, or ...