Virtual Events

  • Jun 21, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Click to RSVP Let’s meet at the beautiful salon of PianoForte Chicago for two delicious sets of songs, Better Together. — Being together is usually better, so they say. Songs and stories will provide evidence to prove the case—or not! Offering opera, pop, jazz, Broadway,…

  • Apr 10, 2022 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Making Jazz, Arthur Briggs and Josephine Baker French: Join an international conversation about the history of African-American artists living in France, the cross-cultural stories of their fight for recognition, race relations, and the embrace of solidarity through music. Travis Atria (author of Better Days Will…

  • Nov 28, 2021 – Feb 28, 2022 @ 12:00 am – LEARN MORE or SIGN IN to WATCH NOW We are bringing our acclaimed online opera in thanks to health care workers who have been on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19. We’re especially please to have Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73…

  • Jul 17, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Songs to celebrate summer, rose gardens, lazy afternoons, midnight walks, and moon dancing. Pianists: Elizabeth Doyle, Bobby Schiff, Dan Stetzel. Singers: Adrienne Minnes, Carrie Hedges, Carol Weston, Christian Halvorsen, Claudia Hommel, Evelyn Danner, Jonathan Lewis, Lydia Stux, Patrick Davis, Ruth Fuerst, Sharon Waltham TWO WAYS…

  • Healing through Song Part 3 – Dream On

    Mar 28, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm –   Healing through Song Part 3 – Dream On (Sunday, March 28th) Room opens at 2:30 p.m. to meet and greet the artists and each other. Show begins at 3:00 p.m. Live-chat with emcees David Stephens and Arlene Armstrong and today’s cast from Chicago and…

  • Mar 21, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm –   Healing through Song Part 2 – I’m Here: See Me As I Am (Sunday, March 21st) Room opens at 2:30 to meet and greet the panelists and each other. Livechat with emcees David Stephens and Arlene Armstrong and today’s cast from Chicago and beyond:…

  • Mar 14, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm –   Healing through Song Part 1 – I Know Where I’ve Been (Sunday, March 14th) Rooms open at 2:30 to meet and greet the artists and each other. Livechat with with emcees David Stephens and Arlene Armstrong and today’s cast from Chicago and beyond: Paula…

  • Mar 7, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Black Voices in Conversation—A History of Cabaret (Sunday, March 7th) Moderated by Mark Ruffin Panel begins at 3:00 PM Central Time. Room opens at 2:30 to meet and greet the panelists and each other. So much was going in the 19-teens and twenties to make…

  • Feb 14, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm – We all deserve a Brand New Day and what better than celebrating it with more than a dozen songs, a Valentine’s Day bouquet from some of our favorite performers. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. for a meet and greet with artists via Zoom.  The concert…