Ravinia 2025 Issue 1

PAVILION 8:00 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2025 AN EVENING WITH HEART AMESSAGE FROMMIDTOWN ATHLETIC CLUBS At Midtown Athletic Clubs, we believe active, social people live happier, healthier lives. That involves more than just fitness; it’s also about having a picnic on the Lawn at Ravinia with friends. For us at Midtown, being active is a way of life, and that includes being active in the community. In addition to Ravinia, we sponsor programs like the Tennis Opportunity Program in Chicago, ensuring talented young tennis players from underprivileged communities get tennis coaching and academic tutoring so they in turn get college scholarships; Mindstrong in Montreal, the largest mental-health fundraiser in the province, raising over $1 million per year; and the Tour de Cure in Rochester, NY, a massive bike ride for diabetes research. In addition to that support, our biggest goal is ending genetic retinal disease, a form of which impacts our founder’s grandson. With support from Midtown, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has funded research and doctors focused on curing Lebers Congenital Amaurosis and other retinal diseases. To date, over 50 children have been cured. They see their parents, siblings, friends, and the world for the first time! This cure is the first and only gene therapy of any kind ever successfully performed on humans. HEART The origins of Heart can be traced back to the mid-’60s when they were called The Army— and later White Heart—before sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson joined and the Heart lineup was solidified. Establishing a significant fol- lowing in Vancouver, the group was signed to the Canadian label Mushroom and released its debut album, Dreamboat Annie , in 1975. Initial- ly released in Canada, the album enjoyed hot sales that soon led to distribution in the Unit- ed States, where it quickly achieved platinum status and climbed Billboard ’s chart to number seven on the strength of “Magic Man” (num- ber nine) as well as the radio staple “Crazy on You.” In 1977 Heart recorded Little Queen on the CBS imprint Portrait, which quickly repeated the success of its predecessor with “Barracuda.” The following year saw two releases: Magazine , which comprised then-completed sessions from the Mushroom years, and Dog & Butterfly . Both were platinum, number-17 hits and added “Straight On” and “Heartless” to the group’s cat- alogue of popular singles. Bebe le Strange (1980) became Heart’s third top-10 album, but the group’s greatest hit came in 1985 when its epon- ymous eighth studio album was released on Capitol Records. It soared to number one and multiplatinum status with four top-10 singles: “What About Love,” “Never,” “These Dreams” (a number-one hit) and “Nothin’ at All.” Bad Ani- mals (1987) enjoyed similar success with “Alone” and “Who Will You Run To,” as did Brigade (1990) with “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You.” Twenty years later Heart returned to the top 10 with Red Velvet Car . The Wilson sisters were invited to perform “Stairway to Heaven” as the finale to the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Led Zeppelin in 2012. That same year, they learned Heart would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, where the original members reunited to play together for the first time in decades. Heart’s most recent studio al- bum, Beautiful Broken , was released in 2016, and since then, the Wilson sisters have been touring with solo projects. Heart previously appeared at Ravinia in 2013 and 2014. RAVINIAMAGAZINE • JUNE 6 – JUNE 15, 2025 66 RYANDAVID