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PAVILION
THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
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THE BEACH BOYS
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Ravinia debut
THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
In the early
s, singers Bill Medley and Bob-
by Hat eld met through the mutual appreciation
of their respective vocal groups, the Paramours
and the Variations. Together they formed a new
version of the Paramours in
and signed
with a small local label, Moonglow, but the
group soon fell apart. Rather than abandon
the contract and their musical simpatico, Med-
ley and Hat eld carried on as a duo, renaming
themselves e Righteous Brothers. ey scored
some moderate hits while working with Moon-
glow, most notably two tracks from their debut
album,
Right Now!
: “My Babe” and “Little Latin
Lupe Lu” (which was covered later in the ’ s
by e Kingsmen and several other groups). e
Brothers had a banner year in
. Between
stints opening for the rst American tours of
e Beatles and
e Rolling Stones, the duo
helped inaugurate the TV variety show
Shin-
dig!
and became regular guests. e crystalizing
moment for
e Righteous Brothers, however,
was when they met Phil Spector later that same
year. To that legendary producer’s ears, the duo
epitomized the newly coined “blue-eyed soul”
sound, so he worked out a deal to allow them
to record for his Philles label. As a result, in
e Righteous Brothers hit the airwaves with
“You’ve Lost
at Lovin’ Feelin’,” which would
become (according to BMI) the most played
song in the history of American radio. e duo
had a heavy hand in producing further albums
with Spector, though he worked on polishing up
the singles into more major hits: “Just Once In
My Life,” “Unchained Melody,” and “Ebb Tide.”
When the Brothers le Spector for the Verve la-
bel, Medley assumed production duties, and the
duo quickly found further chart-topping fame
with “(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration” in
.
Medley and Hat eld went separate ways in
,
but just weeks a er reuniting in
, the duo re-
captured “that lovin’ feelin’” with a recording of
“Rock and Roll Heaven.”
e Righteous Broth-
ers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in
, just months before Hat eld’s
death. Bucky Heard joined Medley for the reviv-
al of the duo in
. e Righteous Brothers are
making their Ravinia debut.
TIMO ANDRES,
piano
A native of California, pianist and composer
Timo Andres grew up in Connecticut and now
resides in New York. He completed both a bach-
elor’s and a master’s degree at the Yale School of
Music, and he is one-sixth of the composition
collective Sleeping Giant, with whom he has
written for Carnegie Hall, the Albany Sym-
phony, and Chicago’s eighth blackbird, among
others. Andres’s notable works include
Every-
thing Happens So Much
, a commission from the
Boston Symphony;
Strong Language
, a string
quartet for the Takács Quartet commissioned
by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Con-
cert Series;
Steady Hand
, a two-piano concerto
commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia and pre-
miered at London’s Barbican with Andres and
pianist David Kaplan; and
e Blind Banister
, a
piano concerto for Jonathan Biss commissioned
by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cara-
moor, and Orchestra of Saint Luke’s that was a
Pulitzer Prize nalist.
is season he cre-
ated works for the Music Academy of the West,
cellist Inbal Segev and the Metropolis Ensemble,
and Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute. Andres has
also written large-scale works for the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Or-
chestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well
as a piano quintet for Biss and the Elias String
Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Wig-
more Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and
the San Francisco Performances series, among
other chamber pieces. As a pianist, Andres has
given recitals at Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall,
the Phillips Collection, Le Poisson Rouge, and
National Sawdust, among a wide range of ven-
ues. He recently performed the premiere of a
concerto written for him by Ingram Marshall
with John Adams and the LA Phil, and he has
toured internationally with Philip Glass, pre-
senting the composer’s complete Etudes in a duo
recital. At Glass’s nomination, Andres recently
received Toronto’s Glenn Gould Protégé Prize.
Timo Andres was on the faculty of RSMI ear-
lier this summer for the premiere of his Piano
Trio, commissioned by Ravinia for RSMI’s th
anniversary. Tonight Andres makes his Ravinia
concert debut.
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