In 2004 Barone brought the event to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl, and then to Chicago's Ravinia Festival, with expanded casts including Maureen McGovern, Jack Jones and Bea Arthur.

: For the music festival in Highland Park, IL, see Ravinia Festival

Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival.

The Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival in August 1936 and has been in residence at the Festival every summer since.

The Vermeer performed at virtually all the most prestigious festivals, including Tanglewood, Aldeburgh, Norfolk, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Taos, Bath, South Bank, Lucerne, Stresa, Flanders, Kneisel Hall, Caramoor, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Orlando, Daniel, Edinburgh, Great Woods, Spoleto, Ravinia, and the Casals Festival.

A concert staging of the original version of Annie Get Your Gun took place at the Ravinia Festival, Chicago from August 13 – 15, 2010 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Annie Oakley's birth.

The production premiered at The Acting Companys summer residence at Chautauqua Institution, toured the United States, including an engagement at the Highland Park, Illinois ' Ravinia Festival in 1984, and played London's West End.

Since 2001, LuPone has been a regular performer at the Chicago Ravinia Festival.

Following the Ravinia Festival production of Gypsy, LuPone and author Arthur Laurents mended a decade-long rift and she was cast in the City Center Encores!

In August 2010, LuPone appeared in a three-day run of Irving Berlin ’ s Annie Get Your Gun, in which she played the title role opposite Patrick Cassidy, at the Ravinia Festival, directed by Lonny Price.

In Chicago, he conducted his first performance at the Ravinia Festival in July 1967 ; he was the Festival's principal conductor from 1970 to 1972.

The American stage première took place at the Ravinia Festival near Chicago in 1959.

Orchestra Hall was also used as a movie theater during the 1910s, to maintain income during the summer months, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was playing at the Ravinia Festival.

Lewis is artistic director of Jazz at Ravinia ( an annual feature at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois ) and helped organize Ravinia's Jazz Mentor Program.

Festival appearances have included Bad Kissingen, Belfast, Cervantino, La Grange de Meslay, Husum Piano Rarities, Lanaudière, Ravinia, La Roque d ’ Anthéron, Ruhr Piano, Halifax ( Nova Scotia ), Singapore Piano, Snape Maltings Proms, Turku and Ottawa Strings of the Future, as well as the Chopin Festivals of Bagatelle ( Paris ), Duszniki and Valldemossa.

: The Union Pacific North line also provides service to Northwestern University via the Evanston Davis Street station, Ravinia Festival via the Ravinia Park station, and the Chicago Botanic Garden via the Braeside station.

She also performed at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and performed Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Orchestra of St. Luke's under André Previn.

West Side Story was performed at UNCSA's Stevens Center from May 3 – 13, 2007, and then went on tour to Chicago's Ravinia Festival on June 8, 2007.

This same cast had performed at the Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois, on August 22 – 23, 2003.

He has been composer-in-residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Merkin Hall in New York, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Music Alive series, Marlboro Music School and Festiva, Ravinia Festival, and several other festivals.

The county is divided into forty-four townships: Aberdeen, Allison, Bates, Bath, Brainard, Cambria, Carlisle, Claremont, Columbia, East Hanson, East Rondell, Franklyn, Frederick, Garden Prairie, Garland, Gem, Greenfield, Groton, Hecla, Henry, Highland, Lansing, Liberty, Lincoln, Mercier, New Hope, North Detroit, Oneota, Ordway, Osceola, Palmyra, Portage, Prairiewood, Putney, Ravinia, Richland, Riverside, Savo, Shelby, South Detroit, Warner, West Hanson, Westport, West Rondell.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra maintains a summer home at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois.

On July 18, 2008 Hiatt performed at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois with his daughter, Lilly.

Conlon received the League's Crystal Globe Award at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park near Chicago on August 12, 2007.

Located in Highland Park, IL, the festival operates on the grounds of Ravinia Park, with a variety of outdoor and indoor performing arts facilities.

Accordingly, most grocery stores and specialty restaurants in and around the Highland Park area offer ready-to-eat " Ravinia picnics " for purchase.

Ravinia Park, located north of Chicago, is also a favorite destination for many Chicagoans, with performances occasionally given in Chicago locations such as the Harris Theater.

The Orchestra first performed there during Ravinia Park's second season in November 1905 and continued to appear there on and off through August 1931, after which the Park fell dark due to the Great Depression.

* 19 July 2008, sang her last American concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Park.

In 1922 he conducted operas for the Ravinia Park Opera Company of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, and on 19 February of that year he conducted for the first time at the Met for one of the Sunday Concerts.

One of the entrances to Ravinia Park

The park is served by the Metra commuter railroad station Ravinia Park outside the front gate with special stops before and after concerts.

CYSO's various ensembles perform at places including Symphony Center-Orchestra Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, the South Shore Cultural Center, University of Chicago ’ s Mandel Hall, Chicago ’ s Grant Park, and the Ravinia Festival.

Within Perimeter Center, they are followed by Three Ravinia Drive in Dunwoody, and Park Towers II and I in Sandy Springs ( seen in the above picture at left ), the only others to be true skyscrapers over.

The first date she announced was July 8, 2012 at Ravinia Festival near Chicago, Illinois.

The Ravinia Festival in Chicago presented a concert version with George Hearn as Tony and Rod Gilfry as Joe on July 20, 2007.

Ravinia is one of the few concert venues in the country to allow full meals to be brought in and consumed at concerts, even allowing alcoholic beverages and bottles of wine.

Many conductors have made their debut with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, and several have gone on to become the artistic director, or primary summertime guest conductor at Ravinia, including Seiji Ozawa ( 1964 – 1968 ), James Levine ( 1973 – 1993 ), and Christoph Eschenbach ( 1995 – 2003 ).

Serkin later earned the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance at the 26th Grammy Awards ( 1984 ) and was nominated for Best Classical Vocal Performance at the 52nd Grammy Awards ( 2010 ) for his work on the album Recital at Ravinia ( with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson ).

Ravinia failed because the Ravinians realized that Saint Dane really was pure evil and they disagreed on his methods to making Halla better.

Musicians from Ravinia ’ s Steans Institute have appeared at such prestigious venues as Boston ’ s Gardner Museum, the Library of Congress, Miami ’ s Friends of Chamber Music series and New York ’ s Town Hall, in addition to performances each year on the Ravinia Festival ’ s Rising Stars series.

The prairie-style Martin Theatre ( then called Ravinia Theatre ) is the only building on the grounds that dates back to that original construction.

For most attendees Ravinia is experienced on the 36 acre ( 150, 000 m² ) parkland and lawn.

While reaching out through the schools, Ravinia is also active in Chicago ’ s under-served communities, particularly Lawndale, a neighborhood on Chicago ’ s West Side.

The business district on Roger Williams Ave., within walking distance from the Ravinia Festival Grounds, includes neighborhood service businesses and restaurants.

She has performed at many international festivals including the WOMAD Festival, Bang on a Can Festival, Festival d ’ Automne in Paris, Henry Wood ’ s BBC Promenade, Hong Kong Arts Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Le Festival de Radio France, Lincoln Center Festival, Luminato, NextWave !/ BAM, Ravinia Festival, Silk Road Festival, Sydney Festival, Tanglewood, Wien Modern and the Yatsugatake Kogen Festival in Japan.