But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

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Every New Year's Day for the last 21 years, Dove of Peace Lutheran Church has held a classical music concert to ring in the ...

While I don’t subscribe to the belief that classical music should be embraced as a kind of aural sedative for harried hearts and minds, concert halls do provide a place to turn off your phone and ...

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s winter and spring schedule spans centuries of music and has something for everyone. Our friends at ...

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, right, and pianist Yunchan Lim during a concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 18, 2025.

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