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Check Out the Brahms Bonanza at Ravinia

Also celebrate Tony-nominee Barbara Cook's 85th birthday this weekend in Highland Park.

The information below comes from Ravinia Festival.

Brahms Bonanza with Chicago Symphony Orchestra
In 1853 Robert Schumann predicted that Brahms would be the next great German symphonist, and he was right. By 1883 the 19th-century conductor Hans von Bülow famously linked the name of Brahms with those of Bach and Beethoven—the “Three B’s”—making him the culmination of two centuries of Teutonic music history. These works are also the culmination of Brahms’s own symphonic compositions, his last two large-scale works for orchestra, which astonished audiences and critics of his time for their highly innovative structure and instrumentation.
Friday, July 13 at 8 p.m. in the pavilion.
Tickets $10 to $70.

Movie Music Concerto with Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Two European composers who famously came to America share the bill: Dvořák, who visited only for a few years (during which he composed his “New World” symphony) and who remained essentially a Czech composer; and Korngold, who left the Austrian Empire and moved to Hollywood, where he enjoyed a major second career as a film composer. His Violin Concerto actually incorporates themes from his film scores into each of its movements, including excerpts from Another Dawn, Juárez, Anthony Adverse and The Prince and the Pauper. So on Saturday evening you will hear Dvořák’s most thoroughly Bohemian symphony—“From the Old World,” if you will—as well as Korngold’s homage to his own Academy Award-winning output.
Saturday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the pavilion.
Tickets $10 to $25.

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Barbara Cook's 85th Birthday Celebration
One of five 2011 Kennedy Center honorees, Barbara Cook has been an iconic performer for half a century, from her days as Broadway’s favorite ingénue (Cunegonde in Candide, Marian the Librarian in The Music Man, Amalia in She Loves Me) to her second career as a concert and recording artist and—at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute—a mentor and pedagogue. At 85, she shows no signs of slowing down, earning a 2010 Tony Award nomination for her turn in Sondheim on Sondheim.
Sunday, July 15 at 5 p.m. in the pavilion.
Tickets $10 to $90.

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