Ravinia 2024 Issue 3

BENNETT GORDON HALL 11:00 AM SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2024 CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC KELLY CORCORAN, conductor † NEFELI CHADOULI, conductor † RASHADA DAWAN, narrator BROWN Wild Symphony * Maestro Mouse Woodbird Welcome Bouncing Kangaroo Clumsy Kittens The Ray Happy Hippo Frogs in a Bog Anxious Ostrich The Armadillo Shell Dancing Boar Impatient Ponies Wondrous Whale Cheetah Chase Eager Elephant Rat Attack Busy Beetles Spiders on a Web Brilliant Bat Swan in the Mist Cricket Lullaby Maestro Mouse Reprise There will be no intermission in this program. † Ravinia debut * First performance at Ravinia STEPHEN ALLTOP, music director Stephen Alltop has built a career based on excellence in several disciplines, conduct- ing both orchestral and choral ensembles and performing as a keyboard artist. The 2023–24 season marked his 27th year as Music Director of the Apollo Chorus of Chi- cago, only the ninth leader of the chorus in its more than 150-year history. A specialist in ora- torio performance, he has led over 100 oratorio and operatic masterworks. Since 1994, Alltop has served on the conducting and keyboard faculties of Northwestern University, where he conducts the Alice Millar Chapel Choir and the Baroque Music Ensemble. He has also been mu- sic director of the Elmhurst Symphony Orches- tra since 1995, earning Conductor of the Year honors from the Illinois Council of Orchestras in 2012. Alltop received the same honor in 2022 with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, having become its music director in 2013. In 2007, he made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting mu- sic of Eric Whitacre, and he has led the world premieres of works by John Luther Adams, Jan Bach, Frank Ferko, Stacy Garrop, Stephen Pau- lus, Joseph Schwantner, and many others. All- top has guest conducted numerous orchestras and choruses in the United States, Europe, and South Korea. In June 2022, he stepped in on three hours’ notice to lead the Grant Park Sym- phony Orchestra in a program of Beethoven, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky broadcast live on WFMT radio. As a harpsichordist and organist, he appears frequently with Music of the Baroque and has been featured with Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, Chicago Bach Project, Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet, Lyric Opera of Chica- go, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Chicago, Mel- bourne, Milwaukee, and Omaha Symphonies. CHOIR I Soprano I Claire Chaikin Penelope Hough Edwina Luokkala- Burckardt Kali Jankovich Maggie Ward Soprano II Megan Becker Jen Hare Mary Marvin Deb Moldover Heather Saliny Alto Johanna Hauki Amanda Moswin Jade Santos Joan Sporny Sarah Steffens CHOIR II Soprano I Katy Poorman Clare Scheidler Sierra Shum Martina Skalova Meaghan Smallwood Soprano II Halli Morgan Alaina Rafferty Lauren Schachter Liza Scheidler Gabby Wagstaff Alto Jen Alexander Heather Foote Jennifer Merry Ruth Thuston Arleigh Truesdale RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 61