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'Read This Before Applying to Music School: Some Thoughts on the Conservatory Experience

Despite the long odds of making a living as a professional musician, many parents are encouraging their children to major in music in college. This encouragement is so often is based on the students' desire to major in music, regardless of their actual level of talent.

By Louise Burton

'WATCH: Unusual Video of a Trombonistâ€™s Lips, Shot from Inside the Trombone

Creative uses of new video technology have resulted in an unusual sight: a video of a trombonist’s lips vibrating to make music, shot from inside a trombone mouthpiece.

By Louise Burton
'eighth blackbird Plays Music of Wilco Drummer Glenn Kotche and Other Bad Boys of New Music at Free Chicago Concert

You can still hear eighth blackbird before they fly the Chicago coop. The Grammy-winning new music group will present a program dominated by Chicago-area composers on Wednesday, August 28 at Millennium Park--including a première by Glenn Kotche, a composer more widely known as the drummer from rock band Wilco.

By Louise Burton

'Read This Before Applying to Music School: Some Thoughts on the Conservatory Experience

'WATCH: Unusual Video of a Trombonistâ€™s Lips, Shot from Inside the Trombone

'eighth blackbird Plays Music of Wilco Drummer Glenn Kotche and Other Bad Boys of New Music at Free Chicago Concert

'B1G Trouble in River City: Robert Rumbelow, University of Illinois Band Director, Resigns Over Stolen Instruments

'David Lang’s ‘the little match girl passion’ to Receive Ravinia Festival Première

'Richard Strauss' 150th Anniversary: Celebrations of Note in 2014

'Mnozil Brass Celebrates 20 Years of Boundary-Pushing Fun with New Tour

'Classicalite’s Five Best: Funny Classical Music Videos [POLL]

'Ravinia Listeners Invited to “Name That Tune” at Ramsey Lewis, Natalie Cole Concert

'Gabriela Montero's Piano Improvisations Featured on Ravinia $10 Concert Series