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	Ravinia
		The Ravinia Festival is a 36-acre international performance and education center in Highland Park devoted to classical and contemporary music.
		Ravinia Park was founded in 1904 by an electric railway operator who hoped patrons would come to its open-air pavilion and amusements by interurban.
		Eckstein's widow bequeathed the grounds to the festival in 1944, with the provision that it remain devoted to classical music.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1044.html (250 words)

	Ravinia Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ravinia Festival is a not-for-profit organization that operates several music venues on their own parkland in Highland Park, Illinois.
		Ravinia is also the collective name of those facilities and the park itself, while Ravinia Festival usually refers to the series of outdoor concerts held every summer from June to September.
		The Festival includes symphony concerts, often with guest soloists, as well as opera, jazz, blues, folk, and rock performances, plus ballet, drama, and educational programs which take place year-round.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravinia_Festival (262 words)

	Centennial summer: 100 years of Ravinia
		Ravinia offered two concerts seven days a week in its first years, and Damrosch and his men (orchestras were all-male enterprises in those days) settled in for a busy schedule.
		Ravinia's North Shore neighbors were not pleased at rumors that Ravinia might wind up as a cheap amusement park or be subdivided for equally undesirable housing.
		Summer music festivals were still rare around the globe, and with the exception of the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, and the very fledgling Salzburg Festival in Austria, opera singers were free in the summer.
	www.suntimes.com /special_sections/summer/ravinia/ravinia1.html (1548 words)

	UBS - Ravinia Festival
		Ravinia is the nation's oldest summer music festival, attracting approximately 600,000 visitors each season.
		Ravinia presents a wide variety of musical genres from classical to jazz and hosts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its summer residency.
		Ravinia is an oasis for a loyal audience that enjoys the sounds of summer in Chicago year after year.
	www.ubs.com /1/e/about/sponsor/orchestral_music/raviniafestival.html (163 words)

	Ravinia
		Besides having our interns work with several Ravinia artists in our various schools partnerships, this year junior music education major Elizabeth Bennett and sophomore music education major Sarah Wolff had the opportunity to put together teaching materials for the "One Score One Chicago" initiative.
		To top off the experience, Elizabeth and Sarah were invited to present their materials to CPS teachers at a Ravinia Festival teacher's workshop.
		Borrowing a page from the Chicago Public Library's One Book, One Chicago, Ravinia Festival will launch One Score to promote the enjoyment of classical music and to cultivate a community of discussion in which people are encouraged to relate to each other through classical music.
	faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu /music/pta/ravinia.html (501 words)

	Charity Navigator Rating - Ravinia Festival
		Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in North America and is lauded for presenting world-class music.
		The festival attracts about 600,000 listeners to some 120 to 150 events that span all genres from classical music to jazz to music theater over each three-month summer season.
		The Festival's outreach and education efforts provide relevant programs in schools, communities and at the Festival.
	www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4386/print/1.htm (149 words)

	MADTC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ravinia Festival presents the Chicago premiere of choreographer Mark Morris's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, a masterwork praised for its "utopian grandeur," which contrasts urban energy with rural serenity.
		Nearly 100 years later, Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in North America and is lauded for presenting world-class music.
		In 2003, Welz Kauffman, president and CEO of Ravinia Festival, launched One Score, One Chicago, based on One Book, One Chicago as a means of generating community-wide interest in classical music.
	www.harristheaterchicago.org /ravinia.shtml (480 words)

	Summer in Chicago: Ravinia Festival - Chicago-Sun Times Special Report
		It wouldn't be summer in Chicago without that venerable ode to music under the stars, otherwise known as the Ravinia Festival, which is celebrating a new century of music, dance, theater, cabaret and the symphony.
		Ravinia, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for almost 70 years, will kick off a five-year cycle of complete Mahler symphonies and a three-year survey of Mozart's 27 piano concertos.
		After celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2004, Ravinia may not be the park that A.C Frost envisioned, but it is certainly a place to find superior amusement of all kinds.
	www.suntimes.com /special_sections/summer/ravinia.html (927 words)

	CSO-Ravinia duet hits sour notes
		Not in harmony: Ravinia CEO Welz Kauffman says the festival is considering reducing the CSO's eight-week engagement after 2004.
		Fewer and fewer concertgoers are turning out to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's (CSO) performances on the Ravinia Festival's picturesque Highland Park grounds, leading administrators to rethink their 67-year-old, money-losing partnership with the CSO.
		But Ravinia CEO Welz Kauffman emphasizes that the CSO — and orchestral music — are still at the core of the festival's mission.
	www.chicagobusiness.com /cgi-bin/article.pl?article_id=20282 (813 words)

	AMN Ideastar: Ravinia Festival of Chicago Success Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ravinia Festival of Chicago, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is the oldest outdoor music festival in North America.
		Ravinia Festival looked to IdeaStar to create a fully content-managed Web site that provided the site’s visitors with event information and calendar capabilities.
		Ravinia has a streamlined process that promotes ticket sales, and is still exploring opportunities to individualize user experience even more.
	www.amn-ideastar.com /ravinia.asp (352 words)

	Ravinia - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ravinia Festival turned 102 this year and we celebrated with a day full of music, games, rides and activities for the family.
		That's all the time Ravinia Master Carpenter Mike Robinson and his stage technicians have to transform Ravinia's pavilion stage from a relatively empty symphony-friendly space into a glitzy 1930's vaudeville theater.
		The Community Outreach and Education department at Ravinia Festival hosts a family space for children and adults to experience the music first hand.
	raviniafestival.blogspot.com (838 words)

	Ravinia Website
		"Ravinia Campus is part of our Learning and Outreach initiative, a program incorporating a vast array of educational initiatives to expose new ears to the classics while encouraging a comfortable familiarity among students, teachers and even young music professionals.
		Ravinia Festival, one of the nation's oldest outdoor music festivals, presents internationally renowned conductors and soloists in symphonic concerts, chamber music and recitals, as well as jazz and popular attractions.
		The Festival is located approximately 30 minutes north of downtown Chicago, on 36 acres in north suburban Highland Park.
	www.purplemonkey.com /news/press_mentions.htm (615 words)

	classical music - andante - ravinia festival releases summer plans amid speculation over next music director
		Welz Kauffman continues to put his eclectic stamp on the Ravinia Festival, the venerable summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Highland Park, a wooded suburb north of the city.
		Attention will be focused this summer on Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director Robert Spano, making his Ravinia debut; James Conlon, a former Ravinia favorite returning to the park after a six-year absence; and Marin Alsop, only the second woman ever to conduct the CSO at Ravinia (Sarah Caldwell presided over an all-Mozart evening in 1976).
		The chorus is mired in continuing fiscal wrangling with the CSO and Ravinia management, though both Eschenbach and Kauffman say that they hope to see it return in 2003.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=15800 (525 words)

	Ravinia festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ravinia Festival - Bennett * Gordon Hall, Highland Park, IL.
		The New York Philharmonic is heading to Chicago’s Ravinia Festival for one ravinia festival.The Ravinia Festival has seen many of the world’s greatest artists during its.
		Cadillac PallaceTheatre, 151 W. Randolph Street at Ravinia Festival in ravinia festival.Doc Severinsen and the Ravinia Festival Orchestra with Erich Kunzel Conducting.
	www.lawn-mower.net /ravinia-festival.html (292 words)

	Inventory of the Ravinia Festival Association Records, 1903-1993
		Ravinia first opened on August 15, 1904, as an amusement park built solely for the purpose of increasing ridership on the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad.
		Ravinia Park included a pavilion, a baseball diamond and grandstand, an electric fountain, a theater, and a refectory building with dining rooms and dance floor.
		Ravinia became a summer venue for classical music, and opera was added to concert programs in 1912.
	www.newberry.org /collections/findingaids/ravinia/raviniapr.html (3629 words)

	Eschenbach to Head The Ravinia Festival - New York Times
		Christoph Eschenbach is to succeed James Levine as music director of the Ravinia Festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, starting in 1995.
		Zarin Mehta, Ravinia's executive director, and Marian P. Tyler, chairman of the board, announced on Tuesday that Mr.
		The conductor's first season will coincide with Ravinia's 60th anniversary and an $11 million renovation of the festival's pavilion and grounds in Highland Park, Ill., about 25 miles north of Chicago.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DD1E3AF93AA1575AC0A962958260 (112 words)

	MassMutual Foundation, Jim McClure of Lenox Advisors Announce Support of Ravinia Festival Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The contribution was donated to Ravinia's 13th annual fundraiser, Festa Ravinia, which was held at the River East Art Center in Chicago on Saturday, May 14.
		Based in Chicago, Ravinia Festival's outreach and education efforts provide relevant music programs in schools and communities throughout the city.
		McClure serves as Treasurer of Ravinia Associates, a group dedicated to fostering an appreciation for high-quality music, promoting awareness of Ravinia and its musical programs, encouraging audience development and contributing to the festival's community outreach and education programs.
	www.massmutual.com /mmfg/about/pr_2005/05_19_05.html (489 words)

	Chigago Alumni Ravina \| St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
		The St. Ambrose University Alumni Office invites all Chicago-area alumni and friends to an evening under the stars with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, Aug. 14 at the Ravinia Festival Amphitheatre in Highland Park, Illinois.
		Ravinia is the oldest outdoor music festival in North America and is lauded for presenting world-class music.
		The festival attracts more than 600,000 people to some 150 events that span all genres of music, from classical to jazz, each summer.
	www.sau.edu /news/summer05/ravinia.html (188 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Ravinia Festival Announces Summer Lineup
		The Ravinia Festival will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer residency with Shostakovich symphonies, Bach's Brandenburg concertos, an Osvaldo Golijov residency, and Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell singing Gershwin.
		Ravinia will present the Chicago premieres of two pieces by Osvaldo Golijov, including a new work for cello and orchestra featuring Yo-Yo Ma and the opera Ainandamar (“Fountain of Tears”), the story of the martyred Spanish poet Lorca.
		Ravinia Festival will fly in 70 artists from South Africa for the American premiere of the oratorio uShaka.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/4190.html (468 words)

	Chicago's Ravinia Festival Celebrates 100 Years \| Sound Generator
		Ravinia's centennial season has been announced by Chairman of the Board of Trustees R. Eden Martin and President and CEO Welz Kauffman.
		North America's oldest music festival opens its milestone season with the American premiere of the first South African opera, Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu and closes with Ravinia's Carousel of the Animals, a new mix of words and music inspired by Ravinia's earliest days as an amusement park.
		Furthering and showcasing Ravinia's commitment to education and training on many different levels, the Steans Institute for Young Artists will be featured throughout the summer.
	www.soundgenerator.com /news/showarticle.cfm?articleid=3287&CFID=12785049&CFTOKEN=57697781 (857 words)

	In The First Person
		Under Mehta's leadership, Ravinia Festival has attracted new audiences and has inaugurated several new programs, including the innovative "Rising Stars" series of indoor recitals and chamber music performances.
		Currently in its ninth year, Rising Stars at Ravinia introduces to Chicago audiences talented young musicians certain to make their mark upon the cultural landscape of the 21st century.
		During his Ravinia tenure, Mehta has spearheaded numerous community outreach initiatives, including the Jazz in the Schools Mentor Program through which Ravinia places eight professional jazz musicians in Chicago Public High Schools to share with students their knowledge and expertise during 400 school visits.
	www.newmusicbox.org /first-person/jul99/biography.html (500 words)

	Ravinia Park - Chicago Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		For years, Chicagoans have gone to Ravinia Festival in the North Shore Suburb of Highland Park to picnic and enjoy listening to music which ranges from classical and jazz, to folk and pop.
		Ravinia consists of an amphitheatre and lawn where people of Chicago and the North Shore go to hear classical music, jazz and pop concerts.
		Ravinia Festival is located in Highland Park- you can actually take the metra there so you don't have to worry about parking or drinking and driving.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Illinois/Chicago-777256/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Chicago-Ravinia_Park-BR-1.html (1078 words)

	Ravinia Festival, Chicago - Reviews of Ravinia Festival - IgoUgo
		Festivals 400 Iris Lane, Highland Park, 60035, +1 847 266 5100 Amenities
		There was a time when Ravinia was totally BYO, from simple buckets of chicken to extremely elaborate gourmet meals.
		Now you can do Ravinia fuss-free as the Levy organization has stepped up to the demands of the large and often sophisticated crowd that gathers here on gay, warm, celebratory, summer evenings.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=17889 (756 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Ravinia Festival Announces Jazz Lineup
		The Ravinia Festival's Jazz in June mini-festival, June 16-19, will feature Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Dave Brubeck, and an evening of big bands, the Illinois festival announced.
		Lewis, the festival's artistic director of jazz, and Tyner are featured in an evening of jazz, gospel, and dance with tap star Savion Glover and the James Memorial Sanctuary Choir.
		Ravinia Festival Orchestra @ The Pavilion, Ravinia Festival
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1695.html (312 words)

	Local Resources - media, music, fine arts, culture
		Chicago's premier music festival, summer home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director, and host to the best performing artists from around the world.
		Ravinia Festival 2006 early music performance(s) on: 8/9/2006, 8/15/2006.
		The Grant Park Music Festival is the only free, municipally-funded outdoor classical music festival in the United States.
	earlymusichicago.org /webresources_local_resources.htm (438 words)

	NY Philharmonic: Summer 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The New York Philharmonic is heading to Chicago’s Ravinia Festival for one night — Wednesday, July 21, 2004.
		While it may seem like just a whistle stop for the New York musicians, it is an historical note for the Festival, which began life in 1904 as an amusement park intended to lure riders to the fledgling Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad.
		The Ravinia Festival has seen many of the world’s greatest artists during its 100 years — in orchestral performance, opera, pop, and theater.
	www.newyorkphilharmonic.org /summer04/ravinia_home.cfm (256 words)

	Ravinia Festival \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Chicago \| Frommers.com
		The lawn is the real joy of Ravinia: sitting under the stars and a canopy of leafy branches while listening to music and indulging in an elaborate picnic (it's a local tradition to try to outdo everyone else by bringing candelabras and fine china).
		The lawn to the left of the stage is a popular place for families to spread out, but I'm partial to the tree-filled area on the right (the lights projected into the branches create a dramatic effect after the sun sets).
		The train stops at the festival at 6:30pm, allowing plenty of time to enjoy a picnic before an 8 o'clock show.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/chicago/A19438.html (436 words)

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