Ravinia 2022, Issue 6

KAT VILLACORTA (HARRIS); AARON FARRINGTON (CARPENTER) EMMYLOU HARRIS Born into a military family, Emmylou Har- ris grew up across the southeastern United States before settling in at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro’s performing arts school on a drama scholarship. There she cultivated a passion for folk music and soon moved to New York, issuing her debut album, Gliding Bird , in 1969. The record label soon shuttered, however, and Harris spent a few years away from music—until she began working with Gram Parsons on his albums GP (1973) and Grievous Angel (1974), becom- ing immersed in country music. Following Parsons’s sudden death, she reunited with the musicians that brought her to his atten- tion and crafted her major-label debut album, Pieces of the Sky (1975). Harris’s cover of the Louvin Brothers’ “If I Could Only Win Your Love” on the album became a top-five coun- try hit and set her up to score number-one country records with her next two albums, Elite Hotel (1975) and Luxury Liner (1977), the former earning Harris her first of 14 ca- reer Grammy Awards. Over the next decade, she not only continued to craft her own hits but also became a prolific guest artist, con- tributing to albums by Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and many others. In 1987, a long-standing collaboration between Har- ris, Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton was formal- ized on the international top-10 hit album Trio , including a rendition of “To Know Him Is to Love Him” whose music video was di- rected by George Lucas. In addition to being a frequent presence in the top 10 of Billboard ’s country charts with her solo and collabora- tive albums—including Old Yellow Moon (2013) and The Traveling Kind (2015) with Rodney Crowell, who worked with Harris on her earliest hit albums—Harris joined the all- star cast of country artists on the soundtracks to 2000’s Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? and 2005’s Brokeback Mountain . She also teamed up with Mark Knopfler on 2006’s interna- tional hit All the Roadrunning . Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2018. Emmylou Har- ris first played Ravinia in 1980 and tonight makes her ninth appearance at the festival. MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Mary Chapin Carpenter grew up during the folk explosion of the 1960s and became deeply involved in the folk music scene of Washington, DC, during the ’80s. Carpen- ter’s debut album was released in 1987, but it was her 1989 follow-up, the more country-fo- cused State of the Heart , that produced her first hits. In the 1990s her folk-pop style was enthusiastically embraced by country radio and listeners, with all four of her albums re- leased during that decade achieving at least gold-certified sales. The Country Music As- sociation recognized Carpenter as Female Vocalist of the Year in both 1992 and 1993, and she won a Grammy Award each year from 1992 to 1995 for her songs “Down at the Twist and Shout,” “I Feel Lucky,” “Passionate Kiss- es,” and “Shut Up and Kiss Me,” which topped Billboard ’s Country chart. “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” and “I Take My Chances” off 1992’s Come On Come On were also major hits. The multiplatinum Stones in the Road (1994) was awarded a Grammy and reached number one on country charts in both the United States and Canada. Carpenter remained in the top 10 for the next decade, through the intro- spective Time*Sex*Love* (2001) and Between Here and Gone (2004) and her first indepen- dent albums, The Calling (2007) and The Age of Miracles (2010). Following 2012’s Ashes and Roses , she was inducted into the Nash- ville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, today one of only 15 female members. Carpenter created Songs from the Movie (2014) with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and has since performed its arrangements with the Los An- geles Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra, among other ensembles. She es- tablished her own label for 2016’s The Things that We Are Made Of , also issuing Sometimes Just the Sky in 2018 and The Dirt and the Stars in 2020. Just a few days after Stars , she released the Grammy-nominated One Night Lonely , which was recorded live without an audience at Wolf Trap during the global pan- demic shutdown. Mary Chapin Carpenter first performed at Ravinia in 1995 tonight makes her ninth appearance at the festival. BENNETT GORDON HALL 1:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2022 GENEVA LEWIS, violin # AUDREY VARDANEGA, piano # SAY Violin Sonata No. 1 * Melancholy…: Andante mysterioso Grotesque…: Moderato scherzando Perpetuum mobile…: Presto Anonymous…: Andante Melancholy… (da capo): Andante mysterioso BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 10 Allegro moderato Adagio espressivo [ attacca ] Scherzo: Allegro Poco allegretto –Intermission– STILL Suite for Violin and Piano African Dancer * Mother and Child * Gamin SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 2 Maestoso—Allegro Molto vivace Allegretto moderato Allegro molto agitato # Ravinia Steans Music Institute alum * First performance at Ravinia RAVINIA MAGAZINE • AUGUST 29 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2022 28