The Ravinia Festival is boasting a changed summer plan of 117 events, much more than 60 % of them classical concerts boasting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and many artists and supporting players. The classical, pop, jazz, dancing and music theatre season will move June 3 to Sep. 7 in Ravinia Park. There will be less visiting conductors than in some former yrs, and the CSO scheduling will diverge barely in the least from regular summer fare now that Ravinia’s multiyr historic series of functions banished by the Third Reich, “Breaking the Silence,” has been imitative hold.
Ravinia will present the 200th anniversary of Mexican independency and the 150th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution with varied music and dancing events, with the first appearance of the Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela and presentation by Concert Dance Inc.
Artists coming out in recitation include high-pitched K. Te Kanawa; piano player L. Fleisher, N. Tsujii, M. Dichter and C. Dichter; and fiddlers Midori and L. Josefowicz.
This summertime Ravinia will show more classic musical programs in the 450-seat Bennett-Gordon Hall abiding by the CSO’s residence.
The festival will be becoming sophisticated on other front: it’s produced an iPhone app, acquirable at the iTunes store, which gives music lovers updates on programmes, conveyance and even how to find out one another on the lawn.
Tickets continue the sale Apr 22 entirely at the festival’s internet site, ravinia.org. The ticket office will active for low-rise sales May 22. Phone sales event starts from May 23. Several brushed off tickets and concert/dining packages will be provided.
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