Word: ravinia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symphony orchestras try to find pleasant outside work for the musicians during the summer months. Philadelphia seats them in Robin Hood Dell (June 21-July 28), Manhattan in Lewisohn Stadium (June 20-July 30), Boston on the Esplanade overlooking the Charles River (July 5-Aug 20), Chicago in suburban Ravinia Park, Los Angeles in spectacular Hollywood Bowl...
Although Monteux is 77, he does not intend to stop conducting. He will lead the Boston Symphony, as associate conductor with Charles Munch, during a European tour next month. And this summer he will conduct in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, at Tanglewood and at Chicago's Ravinia Park, and run his conducting school in Maine. He is booked at home & abroad straight through the spring...
...typical program last week, the Budapest played Mozart, Brahms and Debussy for 3,300 fans in Chicago's North Shore Ravinia Park. The audience had its share of highbrows, but scattered on the lawn near the stage were hundreds of seriously attentive youngsters. Other quartets, e.g., the Paganini, Pro Arte, Griller and Juilliard, fiddle for equally enthusiastic audiences from Fond du Lac to Fort Worth...
...Ravinia Music Festival, Highland Park, Ill.: Budapest String Quartet, Jan Peerce, guests; William Steinberg, De Sabata, Monteux, Mitropoulos conducting...
Ravel: Trio in A Minor (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Gregor Piatigorsky, cello; Victor, I side LP). The most interesting of the three trios (the other two: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) recorded by the famed artists who formally combined their talents for the first time at Chicago's Ravinia Park (TiME, Aug. 22, 1949). The playing in all three is sensitively superb. Recording: excellent...