Even the Chicago Symphony’s rangiest programs are seldom as varied as the one conductor Daniela Candillari brought to Symphony Center on Friday. The most familiar work on the program, Samuel Barber’s ...

What makes a flutist take up the piccolo, that unforgiving "footlong stick of wood?" Sometimes it's our old friend, the law of supply and demand. Catherine Payne, who's been supplying the San ...

Now, I know what you're thinking. You want to know why Jim Harbaugh is playing a piccolo. I do not have an answer for you. I don't know why he's playing it. He's Jim Harbaugh. He's kind of strange but ...