Ravinia 2021 - Issue 1

JIYANG CHEN (GOLDSTEIN) ALON GOLDSTEIN, piano Following his orchestra debut with the Israel Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta at age 18, pianist Alon Goldstein went on to win several competitions, including the Arianne Katcz and Francois Shapira Compe- titions in Israel and Nena Wideman Compe- tition in the United States. His honors also include scholarships from the America Israel Cultural Foundation and the 2004 Salon di Virtuosi Career Grant. In 2019, Goldstein became the second Peabody Conservatory graduate ever to be elected to the Johns Hop- kins Society of Scholars, and he is a regular instructor at Israel’s Tel Hai international piano master classes. In recent years he has performed with the London and Los Angeles Philharmonics, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Baltimore, Chi- cago, Houston, Saint Louis, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. Goldstein’s orchestral highlights also include a Prokofiev concerto cycle with the Indianapolis Symphony Or- chestra and world premieres of concertos by Avner Dorman ( Lost Souls ) with the Kansas City Symphony and Mark Kopytman ( Or- naments ) with the Jerusalem Camerata Or- chestra. Stemming his Beethoven concerto cycle with the Rockford Symphony, he was invited to the 2010 League of American Or- chestras conference to discuss the success of his accompanying multimedia presenta- tion. As a chamber musician, Goldstein has long-standing relationships with Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, which featured one of his recitals on its first CD release. With the Fine Arts Quartet, Goldstein has recorded two albums on the Naxos label featuring Mozart piano concertos arranged for string quintet and piano by Ignaz Lachner, also perform- ing those works at Ravinia in 2015 and 2017. His discography has also recently included Dvořák’s piano trios and Scarlatti sonatas for Naxos, as well as concertos by Mendelssohn, recorded with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, for Centaur. Alon Goldstein was a fellow at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute in 1994 and has been a frequent RSMI faculty member since 2010. He made his Ravinia main-stage debut in 1996 and tonight makes his ninth concert appearance at the festival. 4:00 PM SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2021 Chicago Festival Day These special performances are a thank-you to the invited audience of essential, frontline, and healthcare workers; first responders; neighborhood partners; and families who participate in Reach Teach Play programs at Ravinia. Today is a celebration of their dedication to our community and the courage they’ve shown in ensuring our world has all it needs to recover from the past year. We couldn’t do it without them. 4:30 PM, NORTH LAWN 5:10 PM, SOUTH LAWN SOUTH SHORE DRILL TEAM † 4:30 PM, NORTH LAWN 5:10 PM, SOUTH LAWN MUCCA PAZZA 5:30 PM, CAROUSEL STAGE CHICAGO JAZZ ORCHESTRA SEXTET 6:30 PM, PAVILION SHEMEKIA COPELAND –Intermission– IDES OF MARCH with JIM PETERIK † Ravinia debut THE IDES OF MARCH with JIM PETERIK Formed in the western Chicago suburb of Berwyn, The Ides of March cut their first record, Like It or Lump It , in 1965 before adopting their permanent name the follow- ing year. Then a quartet, the band released “You Wouldn’t Listen,” its first charting sin- gle, but was catapulted to national fame in 1968 with the addition of a duo brass section (and a record deal with Warner Brothers) on “Vehicle,” which became the fastest selling single in the label’s history at the time. The song claimed the number-two slot on Bill- board ’s chart and the top berth in Cash Box while the album of the same name climbed to number 55. The Ides toured the US and Canada extensively in 1970, supporting the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin and participating in the legendary “Festival Express” train tour. The band fol- lowed up with Common Bond and the single “L.A. Goodbye” in 1971, claiming the top spot on regional charts for five weeks with the song. Keyboards supplanted brass with 1972’s World Woven , released on RCA, and a shift to country rock filled the tracks of 1973’s Mid- night Oil . The band went on extended hiatus later that year. Founding member Jim Peterik went on to create the band Survivor and co- write its platinum hits, including “The Eye of the Tiger,” as well as pen hits for other artists, such as “Hold on Loosely” for .38 Special and “Heavy Metal” for Sammy Hagar. The origi- nal six members of the Ides reunited in 1990 and expanded the band to eight with fuller brass and keys, releasing Ideology two years later with re-recordings of the classic hits plus new material. Their first full album of new songs since 1973, Still 19 , followed in 2010, and the latest, Play On , was released in 2019, featuring such guests as Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad), Cathy Richardson (Jefferson Starship), and Bo Bice ( American Idol ). The Ides of March first appeared at Ravinia last summer to record for RaviniaTV and tonight makes its first live appearance. RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIA MAGAZINE 39