Free Classical Music Available To All

 

This summer has been filled with hearing a lot of classical music here in Chicago. 

The good news is most of this music is streamed online and available from anywhere.

 Here are some weekly concerts you can listen to. 

(Note all times are in central time)

Mondays:

Live from WFMT/ (Streamed on WFMT radio, WFMT website)

Live from WFMT, the station’s full-length recital series, presents weekly music and conversation from October through June Mondays at 8:00 pm. Starting in July, Live from WFMT goes on hiatus. Mondays at 8:00 pm will feature broadcasts from the Ravinia Festival.

Tuesdays:

Rush Hour Concerts  St. James Cathedral (Streamed on their website and YouTube)

The series of 45 minute concerts is held on Tuesday evenings throughout the summer (June-August) at 5:45 p.m.

Wednesdays:

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts (Streamed on WFMT radio, WFMT website, the WFMT YouTube)

This series of 45 min concerts is held year round on Weds at 12:15pm. 

Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays:

Grant Park Music Festival has mainly classic music 3x a week during the summer. The Wednesday night concerts often are streamed on (Streamed on WFMT radio, WFMT website, the WFMT YouTube)

Fridays:

Friday Noonday Concerts Fourth Presbyterian Church

This music series is held year-round on Friday at 12:10 can be found on their YouTube (too see past concerts look through their videos for those labeled Friday Noonday Concerts