Word: ravinia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was Choral Director Margaret Hillis, 54, warming up the Chicago Symphony Chorus before putting the final rehearsal polish on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The Ninth is one of her specialties, but at this summer's Ravinia Festival, she has been conducting all manner of choral works-Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and this past weekend a potpourri of Lerner and Loewe. Although Hillis is also music director of the nearby Elgin Symphony Orchestra, she might be called an unsung heroine: her principal job is to ready her chorus for other...
When Levine finished the concert at Ravinia, the biggest ovation was for Hillis' chorus, and Levine ushered her onstage. Said he later: "I adore that chorus." In Chicago they also adore the woman who built...
...pounder trying to lose weight. Back home at 10 p.m., Levine worked until the wee hours at his desk on Berg's Lulu; he will be conducting it next season at the Met. Next day brought a meeting at a midtown hotel about this June's Ravinia Festival near Chicago, of which he is music director. Then home for a two-hour nap, dinner, and off to the Met to conduct Aida...
...most glorious Brahms," says Starker, "and it has been the dream of all cellists some day to be able to play it." No one, however, dared transcribe the violin work for cello, but early this year a transcription by Brahms himself was discovered. Last week at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill., Starker and Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder unveiled...
...mess with a TV going in the corner, and I happened to hear a cellist playing the Brahms violin sonata," recalls Buchbinder, 27. Elated, the young Austrian pianist contacted Marcus and obtained a photostatic copy of the score. Three weeks ago he sent it to Starker, and arrangements with Ravinia were made...