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...Lang Lang to Beijing for a year and a half of arduous preparations for the Central Conservatory. At 15, after winning two international competitions, the prodigy made the leap to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. By the time he stepped in for an ailing Andre Watts at Chicago's Ravinia Festival in 1999, the classical establishment was ready to embrace him as a new Evgeny Kissin or even Van Cliburn: a fresh personality with a staggering technique and an engagingly soulful temperament...
...Lang is already a veteran. He's been studying his instrument since joining the Liaoning-based Shenyang Conservatory of Music at the age of 3, made his professional debut at 13, and grabbed attention in America in 1999, when his last-minute substitution in "Gala of the Century" in Ravinia with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 brought the audience to its feet. "It was," says Lang Lang, "the moment of my dreams." In China he's played for former President Jiang Ze-Min, been the subject of a best-selling biography, and is recognized on the streets. Now that...
...Beaux Arts Trio has set the standard for piano trios as well as other chamber ensembles. The group has performed at all the world's major music centers from New York to London to Vienna, as well as some of the most prestigious music festivals including Tanglewood, Aspen and Ravinia. In addition, their recordings have won awards and honors including the Gramophone Record of the Year, three Grand Prix du Disques and a Grammy nomination...
Most arts festivals in the U.S. are devoted to a single discipline: opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico; theater in Williamstown, Massachusetts; concerts at Ravinia, Illinois. What the country lacked, until Menotti came along, was a multidimensional festival that both took over a city and took advantage of its architecture and history. During the Menotti era, Spoleto USA benefited and suffered from his increasingly conservative and capricious tastes. There were some noteworthy premieres, such as Arthur Miller's play The American Clock, Martha Clarke's dance Miracolo d'Amore and the Philip Glass-Allen Ginsberg opera Hydrogen Jukebox...
PERCUSSION FOUR. Gwen Verdon restages a hit number from Dancin', the Broadway delight by her late husband Bob Fosse, for Chicago's esteemed Hubbard Street Dance Company this week at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park...