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Hannah Edgar

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  • Music Critic and Freelance Reporter, Freelance
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Hannah Edgar’s Biography

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I’m a Chicago-based culture writer and editor. My primary beats are classical music and jazz, which I cover for the Chicago Tribune, WBEZ, and the Chicago Reader. I also produce radio for WBEZ, write liner notes and bios, and contribute to art industry publications (ARTnews, The Art Newspaper). I hold a degree in archival science and am especially passionate about long-runway, research-intensive features on historical subjects.

Previously, I served as Assistant Digital Editor at Chicago magazin…

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Review: At the CSO, guest conductor Klaus Mäkelä shines with Mahler

Review: At the CSO, guest conductor Klaus Mäkelä shines with Mahler

The CSO’s Mahler can be many mighty things, but “transparent” is scarcely one of them. To witness a trust fal…

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Mars Williams' sax was everywhere. Then came cancer.

Mars Williams' sax was everywhere. Then came cancer.

For this beloved saxophonist—a member of the Psychedelic Furs and regular on the city’s teeming experimental …

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Extraordinary ability, extraordinary burden

Extraordinary ability, extraordinary burden

How artists living in the U.S. on O-1B visas are navigating a system stacked against them. For the Chicago Re…

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Indie extraordinaire Andrew Bird finds new melodic direction in jazz standards

Indie extraordinaire Andrew Bird finds new melodic direction in jazz standards

The violin-slinging singer-songwriter walks WBEZ through the creation of four standouts on Sunday Morning Put…

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Tell Him Your Story, and He'll Photograph Your Wedding. For Free.

Tell Him Your Story, and He'll Photograph Your Wedding. For Free.

Q. and A. Vincent Po, an engineer turned itinerant photographer, has been shooting weddings in exchange for r…

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The art of war

The art of war

When he met Tereska Adwentowska in 1948, David "Chim" Seymour was photographing ghosts. Born Dawid Szymin in …

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Chicago experimental jazz gets a downtown shrine you can touch

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Lauren Deutsch and Jonathan Woods in front of a portion of “Tangible Sound.” This 60-foot panel of Deutsch’s photos, animated by Woods, covers three walls of the exhibit’s south gallery. When tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson died in 2010, the Velvet Lounge died with him.
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Bill McGlaughlin, longtime host of “Exploring Music,” dies at 82

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By Hannah Edgar Verified
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“If the Beatles started with a regular D major, rather than D6, it would definitely lose something”: 5 chord voicings that are a songwriter’s best friend The old adage is ‘a good song can stand on its own played on acoustic guitar’. But is it really that black and white? A specific chord voicing can …
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Lucy Dacus is making her orchestral debut with the Chicago Philharmonic. It's a full circle moment.

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In 2016, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus made her debut at Lollapalooza, in Grant Park. Then just 21, she was an early, first-day act on the BMI Stage, one of the festival’s smallest — a slot that has become dubbed the “Lady Gaga” slot, after the pop icon performed there the year before her breakthrough album “The Fame.” “I was super nervous,” Dacus recounted in a video call from her home in Los Angeles. “I lied about how big my crew was to get my friends in.
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