Ravinia 2024 Issue 1

MARTIN THEATRE 7:30 PM THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2024 KRONOS QUARTET DAVID HARRINGTON, violin JOHN SHERBA, violin HANK DUTT, viola PAUL WIANCKO, cello BRIAN H. SCOTT, lighting designer SCOTT FRASER, sound designer VREBALOV Gold Came From Space *† SUN RA,RILEY,MIYAMOTO Kiss Yo’ Ass Goodbye *† arr. Wiancko GARROP Glorious Mahalia *† Hold on Stave in the ground Are you being treated right Sometime I feel like a motherless child This world will make you think featuring the recorded voices of Mahalia Jackson and Studs Terkel JLIN Little Black Book *‡ (arr. Garchik) LIZÉE ZonelyHearts *† Opening Credits Part I Part II PhoneTap + CCTV Static Interference There will be no intermission in this program. * First performance at Ravinia † Written for Kronos ‡ Written for Kronos Fifty for the Future ALEKSANDRA VREBALOV (b. 1970) Gold Came From Space Aleksandra Vrebalov’s 90 works—ranging from concert music and opera to music for modern dance and film—have been performed by the Kronos Quartet, Serbian National Theater, En- glish National Ballet, Rambert Dance, Sybarite5, Jorge Caballero, the Sausalito Quartet, ETHEL, Dusan Tynek Dance Company, Ijsbreker, Mora- vian Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic, and Providence Festival Ballet, among others. Vre- balov’s cross-disciplinary interests led to partic- ipation at residencies and fellowships that in- clude the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, The Hermitage, New York’s New Dramatists, Rocke- feller Bellagio Center, American Opera Projects, Other Minds Festival, and Tanglewood. Be- tween 2007 and 2011, Vrebalov created and led Summer in Sombor (Serbia), a weeklong com- position workshop with the South Oxford Six composers’ collective that she co-founded in 2002 in NYC. The workshop facilitated the cre- ation of over 50 new works by young composers from Europe and the USA. Most recently, Vrebalov joined Muzikhane (House of Music) founded by composer Sahba Aminikia in Mardin and Nusaybin, towns on Turkish/Syrian border, and for six weeks made music with young refugees from Syria and Iraq. Vrebalov received The Charles Ives Fellow- ship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Hoefer Notable Alum Prize from the San Francisco Conservatory, The Harvard Fromm Commission, the Barlow Endowment Commission, as well as awards from ASCAP, American Music Center, Meet the Compos- er, MAP Fund, Vienna Modern Masters, and Friends and Enemies of New Music. As the Douglas Moore Fellow (2004), supported by the Columbia University’s Alice Ditson Fund, she spent a season in the Glimmerglass Opera, Op- era Memphis, and Florida Grand Opera, where she immersed herself in all aspects of opera pro- duction. Her opera Mileva (2011) had its world Aleksandra Vrebalov RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 65