Thursday, July 25, 2024
CSO + Marin Alsop with Augustin Hadelich
Hadelich plays Mendelssohn; 2024 Taki Alsop Fellow Alena Hron conducts Walker
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
7:30 PM
Tickets:
* Price per person; must reserve full block of 2, 4, or 6
^ Price increases by $5 one week before the event; ticket selection screen shows current price
When Do Tickets Go On Sale? Public ticket sales open at 8:00 a.m. CT on Wednesday, April 24, exclusively here at Ravinia.org. Ravinia donors receive online access to tickets as early as March 19 or during mid-April.
Lawn Video Screens This performance will be shown live on a large video screen facing the North Lawn in addition to the Pavilion and South Lawn screens.
Movie Screens The complete movie will be shown on video screens in the Pavilion and facing the North and South Lawns while the score is played live.
About the Performance
Mendelssohn's hit violin concerto, played by RSMI alum Augustin Hadelich, is in the spotlight as Chief Conductor Marin Alsop returns to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Pavilion. "Music feels like an intimate conversation when Augustin Hadelich is at work," said The Philadelphia Inquirer of the Grammy Award winner. Also featured on the program are Bernstein's joyous Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, particularly special for Bernstein student Alsop. "One of the most valuable things I learned from him," she says, "was this idea of telling stories through music. He was a great storyteller. If he didn’t know the story of a piece, he’d make it up. He was always inventing stories because he understood that we, as human beings, needed a story. We need a beginning, we need a middle, we need an end; most important, we need a moral to the story." Closing this sparkling program is Stravinsky's timeless Firebird Suite.
Performers
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin #
Alena Hron, guest conductor
# Ravinia Steans Music Institute alum
Program
| George Walker: | Icarus In Orbit | |
| Leonard Bernstein: | Symphonic Dances from West Side Story | |
| Felix Mendelssohn: | Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 | |
| Igor Stravinsky: | The Firebird Suite (1919) | |
| –No Intermission– | ||
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