Ravinia 2023 Issue 2

Open at Pavilion and Carousel concerts from park opening through intermission The Ravinia Music Box features a wraparound holographic theater and an interactive gallery space that together provide an immersive encounter with music’s history and inspirational power. The experience introduces all lovers of music, especially new and young listeners of classical music, to its immense, unexpected impact and further powers of music to stoke the imagination. Shows start every 20 minutes from the top of the hour, and admission is free to all patrons in the park. The Ravinia Music Box will also be open at select Martin Theatre and Bennett Gordon Hall concerts; details will be listed on event information webpages and emails for those dates. , . / . : Bernstein’s Answer Throughout his life, Leonard Bernstein used his compositions to confront big questions about the world around him, but for all his encouraging listeners to make meaningful connections to brighten existence, there was at least one riddle that he couldn’t unravel through music alone. In the multi-sensory journey of Bernstein’s Answer , a cast of special guests combine with surreal visuals and a soundtrack of his works to guide audiences to feel out a deeply personal answer through the experience of this iconic musician. : Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic is a vivid, intimate, compelling portrait of the consummate jazz and blues singer—one of 20th–century music’s most iconic figures—in April 1957, a significant moment in her life just two years before her death at the age of 44. Beautifully captured through the lens of photographer Jerry Dantzic, the 375 running foot exhibition provides a rare glimpse into Billie Holiday’s public and private life through 65 pigment prints with labels, curated panels, ephemera, projected video, and vinyl excerpts from the work of renowned writer and author Zadie Smith. Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Jerry Dantzic Archives. RESERVE A PASS IN ADVANCE, SCAN HERE TO LEARN MORE JERRY DANTZIC / JERRY DANTZIC ARCHIVES (HOLIDAY) RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIA MAGAZINE