Ravinia 2026 Issue 2

MARTINTHEATRE 1:30 PM SUNDAY, JULY 26 , 2026 CHANTICLEER TAVIAN COX, LUKE ELMER, CORTEZ MITCHELL, BRADLEY SHARPE, LOGAN SHIELDS, ADAMBRETTWARD, countertenors VINEEL GARISAMAHAL, MATTHEWMAZZOLA, ANDREWVAN ALLSBURG, tenors ANDY BERRY, JARED GRAVELEY, MATTHEWKNICKMAN, baritones/basses TIMKEELER, music director OUR AMERICAN JOURNEY I. PADILLA Deus in adiutorium meum intende * LIENAS Lamentatio in coena Domini * II. BILLINGS Kittery (Our Father Who in Heaven Art) * JOHNSON Je erson (Glorious ings of ee Are Spoken) * GLANTON My Home Above * WESTON Happy Shore * III. arr. JENNINGS ere Is a Balm in Gilead arr. MURPHY Wade in the Water IV. DAVIDS e Un-Covered Wagon * V. THOMSON My Shepherd Will Supply My Need * WOODS close[r], now * TWINING Hee-oo-oom-ha * VI. Selections announced from the stage . * First performance at Ravinia OURAMERICAN JOURNEY is season, we celebrate the th anniversa- ry of the independence of the United States of America by revisiting Chanticleer’s album, Our American Journey . In April , this album was inducted into the National Recording Reg- istry of the Library of Congress, which describes it as “inclusive in its celebration of the varied spirits and history of America.” We carry on to- day where we le o , continuing the voyage and lling in some missing gaps along the way. We showcase the diverse voices, songs, harmonies, and rhythms of our shared musical heritage, ex- ploring how those voices in uenced each other and how they impact the present day. e focal point of the rst half of our program is e Un-Covered Wagon by Brent Michael Da- vids . e silent lm e Covered Wagon follows the journey of an wagon train trav- eling across America. Told from the perspective of the pioneers, the lm is a romanticized por- trayal of their courage. ese settlers certainly endured many hardships, but their story is not the only one we should hear. e Un-Covered Wagon , which Davids wrote for Chanticleer in , challenges the notion that pioneers spread across an uninhabited landscape. Davids writes, “As I thought about time and space, and the dif- ferences in American Indian life in this regard, I was struck by how one-sided this American expansion is, not only for the old era of black- and-white lm, but in today’s America, too.” Davids (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape) describes himself as “a professional composer and a music warrior for native equity and parity, especially in concert music where there is little Indigenous in uence.” He is one of America’s most cele- brated composers, with works commissioned and performed by many of America’s top or- ganizations and ensembles throughout his - year compositional career. In , the National Endowment for the Arts named Davids among the nation’s most cherished choral composers in its project “American Masterpieces: ree Brent Michael Davids RAVINIAMAGAZINE • JULY 20 – AUGUST 2 , 2026 82 CHRISLINE(DAVIDS)