November 2025 Issue: Music 45 (Print Edition) lit The mild-mannered Booth

The mild-mannered Booth

For this 27th anniversary of Best of Chicago

Music of the Baroque floated an orchestra performing Handel atop a riverboat downtown

—From the editors letter written by Brian Hieggelke

"Chicago-based artist Selva Aparicio uses careful preservation of discarded or displaced things in her artworks to question and celebrate memories contained within them

November 2025 Issue: Music 45 (Print Edition) lit The mild-mannered BoothMusic 45 2025 Who Keeps Chicago In Tune "Chicagos music world is much brighter, bigger, louder than any screen, and it's growing all the time. In just one week this September, Mike Reed staged the inaugural Sound & Gravity Festival at venues across Bricktown, Music of the Baroque floated an orchestra performing Handel atop a riverboat downtown, Empty Bottle Presents filled the Garfield Park Conservatory with ambient and electronic music, Theaster