Augusta Read Thomas’s Ear Taxi festival delivers a soaring ode to Chicago’s new music culture
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By Grant Rindner Chicago is a music festival mecca with everyone covered, from hip-hop heads (AAHH Fest) to jazz aficionados (Hyde Park Jazz Festival) to EDM junkies (Spring Awakening). But vaunted composer Augusta Read Thomas wanted to highlight a vibrant, edgy music community that has yet to receive its due on that same scale – […]