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...May 14-August 14, lincolncenter.org Ravinia More than 100 events make up this year’s Ravinia Festival in Chicago, from global music and family shows to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in residence....
...An increasing number of the major summer events — Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Bayreuth, Edinburgh, Munich, even Lucerne and Ravinia which run into mid-September — have cancelled entirely....
...The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is leading the way and will be on tour this summer to some of the world’s leading music festivals, including debuts at Ravinia, Edinburgh and the BBC Proms....
...The production at the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony and America’s oldest outdoor music festival, of Kurt Weill’s Zaubernacht (Magic Night) was not actually its American premiere but...
...Ravinia, IllinoisCounting Crows The Californian rock band Counting Crows headlines at the Ravinia Festival on Saturday, performing its touring material in collaboration with Augustana and up-and-coming rapper...
...Performances by other companies, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Joffrey Ballet, run till September 17, tel: +1 312742 1168; www.millenniumpark.org Ravinia Festival, tel: +1 847266 5100; www.ravinia.org...
...He first burst into the international consciousness in a fairy-tale debut in 1999, aged 17, when he stood in for André Watts in front of 17,000 people at the Ravinia festival near Chicago....
...James Levine has been involved in the training of young musicians at such festivals as Aspen, Ravinia and Verbier, and through the Metropolitan Opera’s young artists’ programme....
...The great summer festival at Ravinia not only predates suburbia, it self-consciously defies the suburban category....
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