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She has been named the world's top female piano influencer in 2025 and 2026 and the world's number one top female pianist for 2026.

She's performed at major venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Symphony Center, the Toronto Center and the Kennedy Center.

And listen to this.

She was awarded Serbia's highest diplomatic honor, Knight of the Saint Sava Order of Diplomatic Pacifism.

While giving blood, donors got to enjoy virtual reality games that Abbott Laboratories created and the CSO scored.

They also received a voucher for complimentary concert tickets, and they were invited to explore Orchestra Hall, where they could take pictures on stage at the conductor's podium.

Happy birthday to two Chicago landmarks.

The Cadillac Palace and Nederlander Theaters are both 100 years old.

And in the video she said, "I don't understand what this person's journey is like, but I do know what it's like to want to be who you are and to love who you love," et cetera.

And I remember watching this at the Symphony Center thinking, "How did this woman get away with this?" Because that's an extremely fraught political statement, and she was kind of able to be and hold it all.

And so that being said, I think maybe where I would say Ed Sheeran differentiates from that is perhaps seeking to be not political and maybe not doing anything politically [laughs] overt.

Do you know what I'm saying? Like, Dolly's life had so much meat to it in this way, where she was doing the thing.