the distinct Chicago style was birthed, carrying with it significant markers that would influence the broader landscape of rock and roll. Its legacy was carried forward by bands that embody the spirit and ethos of the Chicago sound, playing their chords in venues that would become the heartbeat...
Chords Theory Intermediate to Advanced Guitar Lessons As students gain skills and experience, we move them along to more challenging programs at higher skill levels. Intermediate and advanced students take the skills they learned in beginner guitar lessons, and layer on more difficult techniques and...
This past Saturday night’s concert (performed just before the Symphony Ball that was held at The Four Seasons Hotel and raised more than $1 million to help underwrite the CSO’s educational activities), was another musical miracle, with Maestro Muti noting, “We have only guns and tears. ...
released earlier that year, the only characters even remotely similar to Shaft had to be found in the race films of the 1930s and '40s, whose meager budgets and limited distribution in the segregated world of black-only theaters meant that they had no chance of influencing the broader ...
Realizing that people in my school didn’t like Clair de Lune because they were emotionally invested in only the EDM genre, I had an idea– “What if I create an EDM remix of Clair de Lune to reach out to the audience of both genres?” I tried to understand what the composer was ...
But however high the bar for entry, some pieces are only as good as their most committed performance. That maxim was apparent enough during the Chicago Ensemble’s Saturday concert at Pianoforte Studios, featuring violinist Eleanor Bartsch, violist Amy Hess, cellist Andrew Snow and pianist and mus...
Bagatellen—only one of the nine longer than three minutes—rise and fall in these sympathetic performances, and have a charm and loveliness made powerful by their modesty. Spektral violinist Clara Lyon plays the solo Air with a thoughtful feeling, the music floating in a kind of tonal ...
Did you find the time in isolation to be creative? Certainly some. I started trying to write a book back in 2015, so I dug in near the beginning of the pandemic and finished that. It’s only 70 pages, but when read from cover to cover it says pretty much what I wanted to say. ...
but built momentum and energy. The fugue’s familiar melodies were given their due in perfect balance. I’ve never heard it played better. Rübsam’s wife, Jan, told me that he had had rotator cuff surgery on his shoulder in April. Only three weeks prior to the convention did he know...
only to be asked to take over Sunday nights the next week. We accepted but said we needed a month to learn enough songs. I was drafted to play bass, as Dorothy was an excellent lead guitar player. So, I had a crash course in singing bluegrass harmonies and playing the upright ba...