Hannah Edgar is a freelance writer for the Tribune. She covers a diverse range of topics within the arts and entertainment sphere, including music, theater, and wellness, often focusing on celebrities, comedy, and entertainment news. Her work has been featured in notable publications such as The New York Times, ARTnews, and Chicago Reader, among others.
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Hannah Edgar's articles predominantly cover local events and personalities in the Chicago area, with a focus on music, jazz, classical music, and museums. Her work includes event coverage, reviews, expert commentary, and profile features.
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By: Hannah Edgar
Through Monday, the Pritzker Pavilion lawn becomes Sonic Pavilion, a showcase of sound art installations specially engineered for its 24-channel trellised speakers. The opening piece is an ambitious map of Chicago neighborhood sounds by musicians, residents and engineers.
By: Hannah Edgar
The opening night concert marked Hahn's first appearance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 2023. Judging by the fervent onstage applause, the reunion was eagerly anticipated by audiences and orchestra alike.
In 2020, violist Wilfred Farquharson was preparing to move to California for The Los Angeles Orchestra Fellowship, a three-year fellowship “for musicians from underrepresented communities” co-organized by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA), and the University of Southern California. Then, a former participant called him out of the blue.
“You know you're getting old,” saxophonist Joshua Redman told a Rockefeller Chapel crowd on Saturday, “when you're twice as old as the festivals you play.”
By: Hannah Edgar
Pairing Sibelius's elliptical Symphony No. 7 and Shostakovich's epic Symphony No. 4 was an inspired move. But the maximalist Mahler No. 9 was less so.
By: Hannah Edgar
You could say the latter-day Freedom Riders, a band formed at this year's NYC Winter Jazzfest, is keeping the activists' memory alive through their name. But, as the Riders stressed at Chicago Symphony Center on Friday night, that history is alive.
Summer is over, but music festival season very much isn't. At least, not for classical, jazz and experimental fans.
By: Hannah Edgar
When visitors arrive Monday at the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum in Evanston for Indigenous Peoples' Day — its most visited day of the
Fifty years have passed since the Chicago Symphony last played “Belshazzar's Feast” by English composer William Walton. The conductor to bring it back is music director-designate Klaus Mäkelä.
By: Hannah Edgar
Our list includes an essential gospel music history, jazz through the eyes and ears of a former Tribune critic and an insider’s take on the CSO. Plus, even a debut music novel.
