Ravinia 2023 Issue 1

Coming Soon at Ravinia 7:00 PM FRIDAY, JULY 7 PAVILION 1Eɨ<2 with special guest 0$R,2 With hits like “So Sick,” “Sexy Love,” “Closer,” “Because of You,” and “What If,” Ne-Yo is one of America’s most proli c singers, songwriters, dancers, actors, and record producers. He comes to Ravinia for the rst time, toting three Grammy Awards and nominations and millions of worldwide album sales and streams. R&B singer Mario , who rose to fame with the Billboard Award- winning song “Let Me Love You,” co-written by Ne-Yo, opens the show. 7:30 PM SATURDAY, JULY 8 MARTIN THEATRE $32//2ȅS F,RE -E$11ETTE S2RRE// artistic director THE ROAD TO DUBLIN Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell return to Ravinia fresh from their sixth international tour. Playing on period instruments, the lively ensemble is known for bringing “infectious energy” and “profound spontaneity” ( Gramophone ) to major stages around the world. In this new program created and conducted by Sorrell, Apollo’s Fire evokes the joys and sorrows of the Irish and Scottish immigrants who bravely crossed the Atlantic, bringing their ballads and ddle tunes with them. Irish singer Fiona Gillespie joins the merry ensemble of ddles, ute, cello, hammered dulcimer, plucked instruments, and harpsichord. e people of the Isles raise their voices in love, singing, dancing, and prayer. 7:30 PM THURSDAY, JULY 13 CAROUSEL STAGE 0,.2 0$R.S CMT “Next Woman of Country” Miko Marks is a singer-songwriter and storyteller of distinct individuality. She comes to Ravinia following ’s release of Feel Like Going Home , an amalgamation of where Marks has been and where she is going, what she has learned and what she wants to teach. Her music is an innermost look at the ebb and ow of her past, present, and future— the stories she wants to tell but hasn’t been able to speak into existence ever before. 7:30 PM SATURDAY, JULY 15 PAVILION C+,C$G2 S<03+21< 2RC+ESTR$ 0$R,1 $/S23 conductor 0,R,$0 FR,E' violin SHULAMIT RAN: Chicago Skyline JOHANNES BRAHMS: Violin Concerto PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. On the second night of the CSO’s residency, Ravinia Chief Conductor Marin Alsop welcomes RSMI Piano & Strings Program Director Miriam Fried for Brahms’s meteroric Violin Concerto. Pulitzer Prize winner Shulamit Ran, the CSO’s composer- in-residence from to , is featured through her piece Chicago Skyline , which WFMT classical radio commissioned from her to celebrate its th anniversary, and the orchestra’s dazzling musicality is also on display in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. . 7:30 PM THURSDAY, JULY 20 BENNETT GORDON HALL $R,E/ 48$RTET $<$12 1,120,<$ violin .$RE1 28=281,$1 cello +E1R< .R$0ER piano JOSEPH HAYDN: Piano Trio No. in E- at major, . : MAURICE RAVEL: Piano Trio FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Quartet in G major, . Continuing the theme from July ’s concert, the Cleveland Quartet Award-winning Ariel Quartet and fellow acclaimed alumni of the RSMI Piano & Strings Program highlight nal works in recognition of Miriam Fried’s th and nal season in leadership of the globally renowned destination for young professional classical musicians to focus on advancing talents as collaborative artists. Each work shows the composer at the height of their imagination, with Haydn hinting at the dramatically wider soundstage of his pupil Beethoven, Ravel basking in the extreme ranges and playing techniques on the instruments, and Schubert adding his singular gi for song to strings. Ne-Yo Apollo’s Fire Miko Marks Miriam Fried and the CSO Ariel Quartet RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIA MAGAZINE