Ravinia Festival celebrates its audience with Customer Appreciation Day from 9 a.m.—6 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, a day filled with discounts. There will also be chances to purchase added seating to some sold-out pavilion concerts, as well as promotions and samples from Ravinia’s supporters and sponsored advertisers. This is the first day that the […]
As the Festival’s fearless leader, Welz Kauffman knows this summer’s schedule inside and out—so, we asked him for a tour. And while of course the Highland Park resident loves everything on the lineup that he helped create, “there are some things that are very special and unique this summer,” he says—one of them being the […]
Subscription packages to local theaters and music venues are a great deal The best gifts are the ones that keep on giving. For Evanston residents and newlyweds Marc and Emily Zarefsky, it was season tickets to the Marriott Theater in Lincolnshire. Gifted to the couple by Marc’s parents, who themselves have been season ticket holders […]
Earlier this month, students at William G. Hibbard Elementary School in Chicago received musical instruments. These children participate in the Ravinia Festival’s REACH Orchestra, a free student-training orchestra at Hibbard Elementary. Ravinia partnered with WTMX, WILV, WDRV and Wintrust Financial Banks to create an instrument drive through which music fans had the opportunity to give […]
The REACH orchestra at William G. Hibbard Elementary School in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood starts kids off learning about music by simply putting instruments in their hands and letting them create chaotic sounds.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve lived on the North Shore for nine years and I have yet to organize a picnic at Ravinia.
When it’s just you, the kids and the beach, it’s easy to throw a few PB&Js in a backpack and go. But sometimes we want to make it special, and by the time you draft a menu, the grocery list is a mile long and is going to cost more than any respectable picnic should.
