Ravinia 2023 Issue 2

PATRICK GIPSON/RAVINIA (FRIED) MIRIAM FRIED Born in Romania, Miriam Fried emigrated to Israel with her family at age 2, where she began taking violin lessons as a child with Al- ice Fenyves in Tel Aviv. While there she had the opportunity to meet and play for many of the world’s great violinists, such as Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein, and Yehudi Menuhin. Stern encouraged her to study abroad and, after briefly attending the Geneva Conser- vatory under Fenyves’s brother, she became a student of Josef Gingold at Indiana Univer- sity and later Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School. While under Galamian’s tutelage, Fried won her first competition, the 1968 Pa- ganini Contest in Genoa. Three years later she claimed the grand prize in the Queen Elisa- beth International Competition in Brussels, becoming the first woman to win the award. Fried has been a regular guest of nearly ev- ery major orchestra in the world, including the Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Vienna, and London Symphony Orchestras; the Cleve- land, Paris, and Philadelphia Orchestras; and the Israel, (London) Royal, New York, Los Angeles, Czech, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg Philharmonics. She has recently appeared on recordings by the Grand Rapids Symphony, performing a violin concerto written for her by Donald Erb that she premiered with the same ensemble, and the Helsinki Philhar- monic, playing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. For much of 2015, Fried focused intensive study on Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, creating a series of online lectures and master classes for iClassical Academy. She toured the monumental works from Ravinia to Boston, Israel, Canada, and Europe, and made a new recording of them in 2017. She played first vi- olin for the Mendelssohn String Quartet until it disbanded in 2009 and is currently on the faculty of New England Conservatory. The director of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute Program for Piano & Strings since 1994 and the recipient of Ravinia’s inaugural Edward Gordon Award in 2013, Miriam Fried made her first appearance at the festival in 1974 as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orches- tra. This performance continues her 32nd concert season and marks her 18th alongside the CSO at Ravinia; it also continues a series of concerts honoring her 30th and final year of leadership at RSMI. A MESSAGE FROM ALLSTATE Allstate is committed to ensuring all young people have access to programs that empower them to succeed and lead. We’re proud to partner with Ravinia again this year to support its Reach Teach Play programs that inspire Chicago’s youth to be creative, confident, optimistic leaders of tomorrow. More information on Allstate’s commitment to creating a more just and equitable society can be found at AllstateSustainability.com. A MESSAGE FROM BMO At BMO, our Purpose to Boldly Grow the Good in business and life reinforces our commitment to driving a thriving economy, a sustainable future, and an inclusive society for our customers and the communities we serve. We are proud to be a longtime supporter of Ravinia and its mission to bring the community together and ensure music is accessible for all. BMO has a deep sense of purpose—to be a champion for progress and a catalyst for change. We are leveraging our position as a leading financial services provider to work together with our customers, employees, and the greater community to find opportunities to accelerate positive, sustainable change and drive real financial progress for individuals, families, and businesses. In 2022 we announced a more than $40 billion commitment to support communities within the bank’s US footprint. It builds upon BMO Empower, a $5 billion, five-year commitment launched in 2020, which as of October 2022 already exceeded its goal, investing and lending over $5.5 billion to address critical barriers faced by minority businesses, communities, and families. We believe that together with our partners we can create meaningful change at the local level. BMO considers it a privilege to play a part in supporting Ravinia’s summer season. Our continued partnership will help reach a broader and more diverse audience through one of the community’s most anticipated summer events. We look forward to gathering to enjoy the “sounds of summer” and the joy that the festival brings to our community. On behalf of our thousands of employees, BMO joins Ravinia in welcoming you to the 2023 festival season. PAVILION 57th Ravinia Women’s Board Gala 6:00 PM SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2023 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MARIN ALSOP, conductor HEATHER HEADLEY, vocalist RON COLVARD, piano Singers from the RAVINIA LAWNDALE FAMILY MUSIC SCHOOL and VOICES OF TRINITY MASS CHOIR Broadway, My Way HAROLD ARLEN/YIP HARBURG “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (from The Wizard of Oz ) ELTON JOHN/TIM RICE “Easy as Life” (from Aida ) ELTON JOHN “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (from The Lion King ) SARA BAREILLES “She Used to Be Mine” (from Waitress ) BILLY STEINBERG & TOM KELLY “True Colors” TIM MINCHIN “My House” (from Matilda ) PHIL SPECTOR, JEFF BARRY “River Deep, Mountain High” & ELLIE GREENWICH (featured in Tina ) with Ravinia Lawndale and Voices of Trinity choirs ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN “Your Song” with Ravinia Lawndale and Voices of Trinity choirs HEATHER HEADLEY “I Wish” RANDY NEWMAN “When She Loved Me” DAVID FOSTER & CAROL BAYER SAGER “The Prayer” TRADITIONAL “Amazing Grace” with Ravinia Lawndale and Voices of Trinity choirs NIKOLAS ASHFORD & VALERIE SIMPSON “Reach Out and Touch” with Ravinia Lawndale and Voices of Trinity choirs There will be no intermission in this program. Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of Featured Sponsor The Dancing Skies Foundation . RAVINIA MAGAZINE • JULY 3 – JULY 16, 2023 40 I I I I I