Landon Hegedus

Chicago

Editor at Healthcare Facilities Management

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Director’s muddled “Poppea” staging does no favors for Northwestern singers

3 weeks ago | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

Perhaps all is not fair in love in war, after all. That’s the enduring message of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, which concluded a four-show run at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston on Sunday afternoon. While this production, presented by the Northwestern University Opera Theater preserved the opera’s core themes of deceit and the corrupting nature of power remained intact, its overt attempts to take a transhistorical view of those ideas yielded puzzling results.
Haymarket Opera opens season with Chicago debut of an excavated “Ester”

Mar 29, 2025 | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

Around this time in Chicago, each year, a small miracle occurs: As months of frost and biting winds begin to relent, the first green shoots of spring begin to emerge from the ground.
Lakeview Orchestra has a rough and fitfully ready outing with conductor Koo

Feb 17, 2025 | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

The Lakeview Orchestra returned to the Athenaeum Theatre in typically admirable form for its first concert of 2025 on Sunday afternoon. On the tail end of a particularly blustery Valentine’s Day weekend, the distinguished nonprofessional orchestra offered up an approachable and appealing program that leaned toward the Romantic, if not overt romance.
Music of the Baroque serves up a festive, eclectic Brass and Choral program

Dec 21, 2024 | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

After a memorable start to what is shaping up to being a banner season, Music of the Baroque is coming home for the holidays. Hot on the heels of a run of first-rate performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio over Thanksgiving week, MOB has re-upped one of its beloved annual traditions, the Holiday Brass and Choral Concerts. Chorus director Andrew Megill is back at his conducting post after an illness waylaid him from leading last year’s concerts.
Apollo’s Fire soloists provide transcendent moments in “Messiah”

Dec 16, 2024 | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

On Sunday night, Apollo’s Fire rekindled its annual Messiah tradition presenting a performance of Handel’s oratorio to a capacity audience at St. James Cathedral. Apollo’s Fire has enjoyed dual resident status in Chicago and its native Cleveland since 2021. Following worthy entries of the Messiah in recent yuletide seasons, the venerable period instrument ensemble’s return marked an auspicious occasion for Chicago audiences.
Elevating patient and caregiver experience through interior design

Nov 6, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Landon Hegedus

Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital is one of the leading providers of multispecialty pediatric care in North Carolina, seeing more than 703,000 primary care and 481,000 specialty care pediatric visits each year across its four children’s hospitals and eight neonatal intensive care units in facilities throughout the southeastern United States.
Standardized designs for ambulatory care

Aug 11, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Jamie Morgan |Landon Hegedus |John Mccormack

The standard emergency department layout offered customizable options, such as location of patient monitoring systems and nurses station desks with or without privacy glazing. In 2018, the Mercy Health and Bon Secours Health Systems merged to form Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) in Cincinnati, at the time operating 48 hospitals across seven states and in Ireland.
Axiom Brass serves up a varied array of new music at Epiphany

May 24, 2024 | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

The long-running Chicago Composers’ Collective wrapped their 2024 season on Thursday night with a jewel box of new music for brass quintet at the Epiphany Arts Center. The new works were illuminated by the Axiom Brass Quintet, whose diligent and probing interpretations of contemporary works made them fitting partners in this exploratory lineup.
EcoVoice Project, Loyola forces make musical plea for climate awareness

Apr 22, 2024 | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

For centuries, musicians and theologians have viewed the wonder of the natural world through a liturgical lens. Calls for environmental sustainability in the wake of climate change may seem acutely modern, but the moral responsibility to protect Creation—and the threat of destruction if this responsibility is abdicated—is a charge of Old Testament proportions.
Two fine fiddlers spark Bella Voce Sinfonia’s belated spotlight debut

Mar 24, 2024 | chicagoclassicalreview.com | Landon Hegedus

A spring thaw may be coming to Chicago at last. A winter of sad and uneasy news in the classical music world was appended with the announcement that Third Coast Baroque, whose inquisitive and spirited programs marked a welcome addition to Chicago’s array of early-music offerings, had disbanded. But those wringing hands over the state of the city’s Baroque music scene can take heart.