Word: ravinia
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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...