Chris Heckmann News Today

"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum, or cinema," said Erich Korngold, an Austrian-born composer of Hollywoods Golden Age. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, opens 2023 with a program featuring Korngolds Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, or "Hollywood Concerto," and showcasing award-winning prodigious young violinist Esme Arias-Kim.

Luxury expedition cruises — focusing on education, science and nature — are becoming more popular

Forget infinity pools, couples' massages and karaoke lounges; the newest luxury ships are all about scientific discovery. Rather than stopping at the usual crowded European and Caribbean ports, expedition ships are taking guests — along with scientists, historians and naturalists — to places rarely visited by tourists.