Directory of Piano Players in Chicago

The Player (Blu-ray)Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Seldom has an artist roared back from semi-exile with the wide-grinned schadenfreude displayed by Robert Altman in his vitriolic 1992 comedy The Player . Unable to get studio support after the (relative) critical and financial failure of the 1980 Paramount-Disney co-production Popeye , the maverick filmmaker spent the 1980s working on a variety of modest projects ...

Noted banjo player still pickin' in NewtownSeveral of his students went on to play with some of the best-known folk music groups of the 1950s and 1960s. More than six decades after he first picked up the instrument, bluegrass banjo pioneer Roger Sprung , of Newtown, still displays the sense of humor that has made him an audience favorite at festivals and concerts where he continues to perform, along with the musicianship that twice ...

Chicago public high school opens WednesdayCHICAGO (WBBM) — Mayor Richard Daley today will preside over this dedication of a new high school, the only one to open this year in Chicago. Mayor Daley will dedicate and tour the $98.6-million dollar Eric Solorio Academy High School in the 5400 block of South St. Louis. At Alderman Ed Burke’s request, the school [...]