Ravinia 2024 Issue 4

PAVILION 7:00 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2024 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANTHONY PARNTHER, conductor WALT DISNEY PICTURES Presents A PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS Film Directed by PETE DOCTER Co-Directed by BOB PETERSON Produced by JONAS RIVERA Executive Producers JOHN LASSETER•ANDREW STANTON Screenplay by BOB PETERSON•PETE DOCTER Story by PETE DOCTER•BOB PETERSON•TOM McCARTHY Music by MICHAEL GIACCHINO Voice Cast Carl Fredricksen ED ASNER Charles Muntz CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Russell JORDAN NAGAI Dug BOB PETERSON Beta DELROY LINDO Gamma JEROME RANFT Alpha BOB PETERSON Construction Foreman Tom JOHN RATZENBERGER Newsreel Announcer DAVID KAYE Young Ellie ELIE DOCTER Young Carl JEREMY LEARY Police Officer Edith MICKIE T. McGOWAN Construction Worker Steve DANNY MANN Nurse George DON FULLILOVE Nurse AJ JESS HARNELL Omega JOSH COOLEY Campmaster Strauch PETE DOCTER Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts © All rights reserved. Tonight’s program features the complete film Encanto with a live performance of its entire score, running approximately 1 hour and 37 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the end credits. DAVID NEWMAN The son of nine-time Oscar-winning composer Alfred Newman, David Newman began learn- ing violin and piano at an early age, earning de- grees in orchestral conducting and violin from the University of Southern California. In his 30- year career, he has scored more than 110 movies, ranging from War of the Roses , Matilda , Bowfin- ger and Heathers , to the more recent Girls Trip , Night School , and Serenity . He is equally at home composing for dramas, such as the critically acclaimed Brokedown Palace and Hoffa ; come- dies, such as the top-grossing Galaxy Quest and Throw Momma from the Train ; or animated fea- tures, including the award-winning Ice Age , The Brave Little Toaster , and Anastasia , for which he received an Oscar nomination. In 2021, after a decade of conducting the classic West Side Sto- ry film, Newman arranged the score for Steven Spielberg’s re-imagining of the legendary Leon- ard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical, earning a Grammy nomination, having previ- ously created a suite for violin and orchestra for Sarah Chang based on songs from West Side Story . He has composed several other formal concert works that have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Indianapolis and Long Beach Symphonies as well as at Spole- to Festival USA, the Grant Park Music Festival, and Ravinia. Newman has devoted consider- able time to restoring film music classics for the concert hall: in 2017, he led the world-premiere presentations of Star Wars Episodes IV–VII with the New York Philharmonic playing the scores live, and in 2020 he conducted the world pre- miere of his score for Galaxy Quest live with the San Diego Symphony during Comic-Con. Highly sought as a conductor, he regularly leads such top ensembles as the Royal Philharmon- ic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, and the Boston, Chicago, San Diego, and San Francisco Symphonies. David Newman previously con- ducted film scores at Ravinia in 2014 and 2019. RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 87 ALANWEISSMAN