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Chicago's Ravinia Festival had not had such prestige and excitement since Seiji Ozawa stepped down as music director in 1968. Part of last week's furor was over Soprano Beverly Sills, unfurling the druidical delights of Bellini's Norma. But even more of it was over the short, pudgy, bespectacled white man with a modified Afro who ambled out to the podium and called the Chicago Symphony to work with a mighty sweep of his left fist...
...THREE SISTERS. Chekhov's drama will be revived by San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater at the Ravinia Theater Festival in Chicago, Sept...
Chicago's Ravinia Park music festival looked like an Eastern bazaar. Strewn around the stage one evening last week were 47 pieces of Western and Ori ental hardware: four full-grown timpani, four little timpani, three barrel drums, nine objects that resembled brass flower pots (they were Buddhist prayer bells), an array of bamboo, glass and wooden utensils, and lots and lots of gongs...
...RAVINIA FESTIVAL, Chicago, the summer abode of the city's symphony, is supervised by Conductor Seiji Ozawa. The long season (June 27 through Sept. 15) is made up of orchestral and chamber concerts, a short visit by the New York City Ballet, Daniel Barenboim's English Chamber Orchestra, a jazz-folk program and a wide selection of guest artists, including Pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leon Fleisher, Alexis Weissenberg and others of that caliber...
...many of America's major music makers, festivals are the time for summer reruns. Most of this year's programming, at such places as Tanglewood, Saratoga and Ravinia, bears out the thesis: safe, familiar fare for the listener who prefers to leave his brains at home. It took the usually hidebound Metropolitan Opera to break the mold and demonstrate that a festival can also include the thinking man as well...