Friday, July 14, 2023
Premiere: Untranslatable by James Lee III
Ravinia Steans Music Institute
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Tickets:
Please reserve tickets to this event before arriving at the venue. Free admission will still be offered at the door, pending availability.
No Lawn tickets are offered for this event.
Views of the Stage
Bennett Gordon Hall is an indoor venue. The stage is not visible from any location on the Lawn, nor is audio from the performance broadcast to the Lawn.
Cashless
Ravinia is becoming a cashless venue and encourages all guests to bring credit/debit cards or other cashless forms of payment. Cash will not be accepted at The Festival Shop, Wintrust Chair & Table Rental, Dining Pavilion restaurants, and concessions and bars.
Dining/Concessions at Ravinia Festival®
All Ravinia Festival restaurants and concessions are closed.
Livestreamed on YouTube
This presentation by RSMI is free to experience in person at Bennett Gordon Hall or on Ravinia’s YouTube channel wherever you are. View this season’s and past livestreams.
About the Artist
The Program for Piano & Strings concentrates on interpretation and small-group collaboration through the practice and performance of classical sonata and chamber repertoire. Up to 35 violinists, violists, cellists, and pianists—and often a pre-existing chamber group or two—gather for five weeks of immersive and intensive rehearsals and coachings with a rotating roster of some of the world’s finest teaching artists.
In addition to a series of public master classes that focus on growing the fellows’ experience and interpretations of specific repertoire, the musicians participate in several afternoon and evening concerts presented during the summer, featuring the artists in varying instrumental and personnel groupings across the season.
Performers
RSMI Program for Piano & Strings
Program
This program includes an ensemble of RSMI’s Piano & Strings fellows giving the premiere of Untranslatable, a string quartet commissioned from James Lee III in recognition of Miriam Fried’s 30th and final season as Piano & Strings Program Director. The five-movement work is inspired by music’s “universal language” ability to communicate feelings, emotions, ideas, and more across cultures in a way that words from other tongues can be challenging to express clearly and concisely in English.
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