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Ravinia Festival is a series of outdoor pavilion concerts and performances held every summer from June to September at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Ill.
Ravinia Festival is a series of outdoor pavilion concerts and performances held every summer from June to September at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Ill.
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'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'
11:30 a.m. Sunday. Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave.; musicboxtheatre.com or 773-871-6604. A controlled riot of color and an unexpectedly affecting love story. Jacques Demy's exquisitely scaled musical is the opposite of most musicals: It finds...Tags: Fred Anderson, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Catherine Deneuve, United Center, Purdue University
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This July 4th weekend, celebrate your right to free jazz
Chicago Tribune criticThe Independence Day weekend may be synonymous with American music, but in Chicago that doesn't necessarily mean marches by John Philip Sousa (glorious though they are). Free jazz, hard-core bebop, American popular song—that's how Chicago marks the...Tags: Dizzy Gillespie, Theater, Charlie Parker, Checkerboard Lounge, Music Theater
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Music guide
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. CRITICS' PICKS Patricia Barber: The innovative singer-pianist-songwriter plays a rare weekend engagement at the club where she typically performs on Monday nights (7 p.m., $7).—...Tags: John Mellencamp, Boz Scaggs, John Adams, Fred Anderson, Bill Porter
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Leopold Group dance troupe at Harold Washington Library
Chicago Tribune criticReligion and dance aren't exactly strangers, but they're infrequent companions, especially when it comes to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Despite such classics as "The Prodigal Son," choreographers traditionally favor Greek mythology and medieval...Tags: University of Michigan, Harold Washington
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Chicago connections to Tony winners
Deanna Dunagan, best leading actress in a play, "August: Osage County," which premiered in Chicago at Steppenwolf Theatre Tracy Letts, best play, "August: Osage County" Patti LuPone, best performance by a leading actress in a musical, "Gypsy," which...Tags: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, Theater, Celebrity
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Jazz's biggest names play city
Tribune criticJazz stars routinely light up our stages, but over the weekend a cluster of them produced an uncommon burst of heat. Moreover, each offered an alternative definition of the music, from the quasi-classical romanticism of Ramsey Lewis to the plugged-in...Tags: Maurice Joseph Ravel, Count Basie, Babe Ruth, Dave Brubeck, Buddy Guy
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Reeves' pure joy outpaces Transfer
Tribune criticIt was almost a great night for singing. Jazz, cabaret and classic pop dominated the musicmaking Sunday at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, though some genres fared better than others. The high point arrived when jazz singer Dianne Reeves...Tags: Betty Buckley, Harold Arlen, Paul Simon, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra
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Gary Graffman
One of the great American pianists returns to Ravinia after a long absence to perform a recital of left-hand piano works by Chopin, Reger, Corigliano and others. 8 p.m.; $25-$40, $10 lawn. Martin Theater, Ravinia Festival, 200-231 Ravinia Park Rd.,...Tags: Ravinia Park
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Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. CRITICS' PICKS Accessible Contemporary Music: In work by Stephane Delplace.—John von Rhein. 3 p.m. Sun. (open rehearsal); free. Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.;312-...Tags: Culture, Liz Phair, Bill Porter, Garfield Park Conservatory, LeAnn Rimes
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Kot in the act: Shows you can't miss
Willie Nelson: Old Man River just keeps rolling along. The Texas legend continues to record and tour at a prolific rate, belying his 75 years. With his veteran band, the original country outlaw plays at a relaxed tempo heavy on limber interpretations of...Tags: Liz Phair, Willie Nelson, Organized Crime, Texas, Music
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