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Critical Mass: As Leonard Bernstein’s largesse reenters the canon, its...
When Leonard Bernstein’s Mass was christened at the much-anticipated 1971 opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the 1¾-hour work faced a negative onslaught from critics. Typical were Harold...
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Maestro Dudamel Visits Sistema Ravinia
Students of Sistema Ravinia were in the presence of greatness on Wednesday as Gustavo Dudamel, who had his musical beginnings in El Sistema in Venezuela and inspired a character on Amazon’s Mozart in...
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Key Change: David Foster Embraces a New Muse in a Relatively Major (Broad)way
What Foster is doing is creating his first Broadway musical, a show based on the 1930s’ wide-eyed, Jazz Age flapper animated cartoon character Betty Boop. A creative team of Broadway A-listers has...
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Moving Pictures: Inside Considering Matthew Shepard
By Elliot Forrest Twenty years ago, a young gay man was tied to a fence in rural Wyoming and beaten. His injuries ultimately proved fatal. When I heard those news reports in the fall of 1998, I...
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Intense, Beautiful, Devoted: Classical music has long felt the Bern(stein) to...
By Mark Thomas Ketterson There was a stunning moment in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s “Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein” gala this season. Kate Baldwin, on a brief hiatus from her Tony...
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J’Nai Bridges: A mezzo connecting with the moment
By Dorothy Andries Mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, who will be the soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s “Jeremiah” Symphony at Ravinia on Sunday, August 19, “discovered” her exceptional voice when, in her...
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Harmony in Motion: Peter Sellars and Grant Gershon get closer to Him through...
Neither director Peter Sellars nor conductor and Los Angeles Master Chorale artistic director Grant Gershon might have come to know the music of Renaissance master Orlando di Lasso were it not for one...
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For Your Consideration: Craig Hella Johnson plants a fencepost to welcome...
Several weeks ago, I was getting some work done while on a flight from Orlando back to Chicago. Part of my agenda was to digest the libretto of Craig Hella Johnson’s poignant oratorio Considering...
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Our Photographers' Favorite Photos of 2018
With the 2018 season mostly memories at this point, Ravinia’s photographers, who documented events all summer, have selected their favorite images of 2018 and explain why they picked their favorites,...
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Ringo Starr and The Beach Boys Heat Up Ravinia's 2019 Season
Ringo Starr returns to Ravinia for the first time in 24 years on a double bill with perennial Ravinia favorite The Beach Boys for two concerts, Aug. 3 and Aug. 4. The global tour, with confirmed stops...
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