Ravinia 2025 Issue 6

PAVILION 7:30 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025 CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC ANTHONY PARNTHER, conductor Experience score moments and songs from the 23 hit films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Infinity Saga accompanying a never-before-seen film showcasing classic moments frommany of the biggest films of our generation—from the Tesseract being hidden on Earth by the Asgardians all the way to Tony’s ultimate sacrifice. This unique Marvel Studios adventure connects events, themes, and characters from the MCU and celebrates The Avengers , Iron Man , Black Panther , BlackWidow , Thor , Captain America , Captain Marvel , The Hulk , Ant Man , and many, many more. Marvel Studios’ Infinity Saga Concert Experience showcases scores by acclaimed composers Alan Silvestri, Christophe Beck, Danny Elfman, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, Ludwig Göransson, Mark Mothersbaugh, Michael Giacchino, Patrick Doyle, Pinar Toprak, Ramin Djawadi, and Tyler Bates. In addition, this live-to-film experience features iconic songs fromAC/DC (“Back in Black”), Blue Swede and Björn Skifs (“Hooked on a Feeling”), beloved songwriters Alan Menken and David Zippel (“Star Spangled Man”), and James Gunn and Tyler Bates (“Guardians Inferno”). Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts © All rights reserved. Tonight’s program features approximately 90 minutes of iconic performances in two acts plus intermission. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the end credits. Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of the Marvel Infinity Consortium , which comprises Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Fink and Stuart Sondheimer & Bonnie Lucas. ANTHONY PARNTHER American conductor Anthony Parnther is the Music Director of the San Bernardino Sym- phony Orchestra, the Southeast Symphony and Chorus, and the recently formed Civic Or- chestra of Los Angeles, as well as the Principal Conductor of the Gateways Music Festival Or- chestra, which he led in its Carnegie Hall debut premiering I Can for narrator and orchestra by five-time Grammy-winner Jon Batiste. Parnther recently premiered Kris Bowers’s Horn Concer- to with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Tam- ar-kali Brown’s oratorio We Hold These Truths with Los Angeles Opera, and he has led Antho- ny Davis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Central Park Five with Long Beach Opera and Detroit Opera. He has also been featured with the New York, Buffalo, and Rochester Philharmonics; Cleve- land and Philadelphia Orchestras; Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, San Diego, San Francisco, and National Symphonies; the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Sydney Sympho- ny in Australia; and the Chineke! Orchestra, with whom he debuted at the BBC Proms. Dedicated to amplifying traditionally under- represented voices, Parnther has reconstructed and performed orchestral works by Margaret Bonds, Duke Ellington, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, as well as premiered works by Chanda Dancy, Adolphus Hailstork, Mar- ian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Gary Powell Nash, James Newton, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, and John Wineglass. As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Parnther helms recording sessions for many major feature films and television series. His credits include Avatar: The Way of Water , Oppenheimer , Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , Encanto , Star Wars: The Mandalorian , Transformers: Rise of the Beasts , Nope , Creed III , Ghostbusters: Afterlife , Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild , Tenet , American Dad , Turning Red , PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie , and League of Legends . Parnther studied music performance at Northwestern University and continued his musical studies at Yale University, where he fo- cused on orchestral conducting with Lawrence Leighton Smith and Otto Werner Mueller. An- thony Parnther made his Ravinia and Chicago Symphony Orchestra debuts last summer. RAVINIAMAGAZINE • AUG. 18 – AUG. 31, 2025 82