After years of research, Ravinia also installed a new ticketing system that accounted for a hassle-free opening day of ticket sales to the public. VOLUME 8, NUM FREDERICA VON STADE CHERISHES NEW CHALLENGES JAMES CONLON MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RESIDENCYĥ Offstage, patrons and neighbors benefited from infrastructure improvements in 2015, including an enhanced Wi-Fi system a reconstructed bus turnaround that safely segregates pedestrians from motorists and allows Park n Ride users a more efficient load-in while reducing noise and emissions for our neighbors a widened entrance to our south parking lot to match the width of the street that feeds it, removing the bottleneck and beautification of the back of the Harza Building with architectural features that speak to the nearby South Gateway. The critically acclaimed season also featured Bobby McFerrin leading the CSO in Gershwin s Porgy and Bess in concert with Nicole Cabell, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Vocality, a new choral ensemble created and led by Josephine Lee YouTube sensations The Piano Guys and Igudesman & Joo unique artist pairings, such as Itzhak Perlman and Emanuel Ax, Lenny Kravitz and Andra Day, Brian Wilson and Rodriguez, Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang, and David Gray and Amos Lee a CSO tribute to the five-decade career of Marvin Hamlisch more than 60 artist debuts, including pianist Igor Levit, Broadway star Alan Cumming, and showman Seth MacFarlane and 50 works new to Ravinia, including a Ben Moore commission for Ravinia s Steans Music Institute (RSMI). The Chicago Tribune said Lewis has created a valuable, potentially significant piece that deserves a life well beyond this first performance. We celebrated Life Trustee Ramsey Lewis s 80th by commissioning his Concerto for Jazz Trio and Orchestra, which he premiered in his CSO debut in August. It was Hunt who started Ravinia s sculpture collection which now includes works by such artists as Botero, Chadwick, and Plensa with his massive twopiece steel sculpture Music For A While. The great Chicago sculptor and Ravinia Life Trustee Richard Hunt was honored with Ravinia s Marion Lloyd Award Life Trustee Award. We celebrated two other distinguished Ravinia Family members this year as they marked their 80th birthdays. We thank him for his astounding tenure and wish him the greatest success in all his future endeavors.
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Not only did we install James as a Life Trustee of the festival, we look forward to his returning as a guest conductor in future seasons and to his December appearance leading the CSO downtown at Symphony Center. Ravinia s first full-length presentation of Wagner s The Flying Dutchman in concert marked the finale of James Conlon s 11 years as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra s residency, and indeed his longer tenure as a guest conductor that goes back to And though Ravinia and our audiences feted the wonderfully talented maestro with ovations, parties, and praise not to mention our coveted Edward Gordon Award we didn t really say goodbye.
TONY BENNETT LADY GAGA RAVINIA MOVIE
That series provides about 30 quality concerts with reserved seats costing less than the price of a movie ticket, attracting new audiences of all ages to classical music. They came to enjoy more than 120 concerts, ranging from the most popular concert in Ravinia history two performances by Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to the runaway success of Ravinia s $10 BGH Classics series. In addition to expanding our education programs, Ravinia exceeded its goals in both earned and contributed income and entertained nearly 570,000 guests. Sistema Ravinia launches in Lake County Of course, autumn brings not only the start of the school year but also the end of Ravinia s fiscal year, and we re here to tell you that 2015 has been a good year indeed.
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Ravinia s REACH*TEACH*PLAY education programs serve more than 75,000 people each year throughout the Chicago region, and our commitment to CPS and the community of North Lawndale will continue as strong as ever. The response from students interested in joining the immersive music education program was more than double our projections. They also performed with students from our three-year-old Sistema orchestras from Chicago Public Schools, and they made a real connection with piano prodigy Daniela Liebman when she spoke to them in Spanish. Tonight the Ravinia Family witnessed more than 200 children from five underserved schools in Lake County receive their instruments and perform their first notes together as the first Sistema Ravinia orchestra to be founded, with help from the Negaunee Foundation and the Ravinia Women s Board, on the festival s grounds. ANDERSON AND PRESIDENT AND CEO WELZ KAUFFMAN We re drafting this message on an auspicious autumn day.