Ravinia 2025 Issue 5

CAROUSEL STAGE 7:30 PM TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 2025 KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE † † Ravinia debut KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE has elec- trified audiences around the world for over 25 years, from the fields of Naeba in Japan at the Fuji Rock Festival to Madison Square Garden, where the band has shared the stage with the likes of Dave Matthews and James Brown, and from performing as Sexual Chocolate at Out- side Lands in San Francisco to being the first late-night act at Bonnaroo. KDTU’s all-night concerts during Jazz Fest in New Orleans have featured sit-ins by everyone from Lenny Kravitz and Steve Winwood to avant-garde luminaries Marc Ribot and Boyfriend. Denson’s Rolling Stones bandmates (since 2014) Chuck Leavell and Bernard Fowler have guested onstage and in the recording studio, as have such artists as Lukas Nelson, John Oates, Michael Franti, War- ren Haynes, Big Daddy Kane, Roy Hargrove, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Joshua Redman, Marcus King, and Bernie Worrell. Touring the country with the Allman Brothers, My Morning Jacket, D’Angelo, The Roots, Public Enemy, Bob Weir, Parliament Funkadelic, Slightly Stoopid, and Widespread Panic, the Tiny Universe has reached countless concertgoers. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe is making its Ravinia debut. MARTIN THEATRE 7:30 PMWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 APOLLO’S FIRE JEANNETTE SORRELL, artistic director & conductor ALAN CHOO, SUSANNA PERRY GILMORE & EMI TANABE, violin RENÉ SCHIFFER & REBECCA LANDELL, cello & viola da gamba DAPHNA MOR, recorder • KATHIE STEWART, traverso Fencing Match Dueling Double Concertos VIVALDI I. Allegro from Concerto Grosso in D major, RV 564 * Alan Choo & Emi Tanabe, violin ; René Schiffer & Rebecca Landell, cello TELEMANN Concerto for Recorder and Flute in E minor, TWV 52:e1 * Largo— Allegro Largo— Presto Daphna Mor, recorder ; Kathie Stewart, traverso BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 Vivace Largo, ma non tanto Allegro Alan Choo & Susanna Perry Gilmore, violin –Intermission– RAMEAU Dances from Les Fêtes d’Hébé and Dardanus Tambourins—Ballet—Chaconne SCHIFFER Concerto for Two Violas da Gamba (“Tango”) * Cadenza abrupta—Tempo di Tango René Schiffer & Rebecca Landell, viola da gamba VIVALDI La Folia (“Madness”) after Trio Sonata in D minor, RV 63 (arr. Sorrell) Alan Choo & Emi Tanabe, violin * First performance at Ravinia Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of Sponsor Paul M. Angell Family Foundation . RAVINIAMAGAZINE • AUG. 4 – AUG. 17, 2025 72 STEVERAPPORT STEVERAPPORT