Ravinia Festival

…conductor and curator of the Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois, though the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the start of her tenure until 2021.

…at Marlboro, Vermont, and at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois; the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center; and elsewhere. His numerous honours included a MacArthur fellowship in 2003. In 2006 he was named Composer of the Year by the venerable performing-arts magazine Musical America.

In 1999 at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, Lang stepped in at the last moment for an ailing André Watts and earned rave reviews for his performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—and became famous virtually overnight.

…was music director of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago from 1964 to 1968, of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1969, and of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1976. For an extraordinarily long period—from 1973 to 2002—Ozawa served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.…