Helen Plum Library cardholders can get complimentary Ravinia Festival lawn tickets this summer! Ravinia's Words & Music Program provides free lawn passes to concerts featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and other classical artists. Tickets to the performances below will be available first come, first served at the Adult Services Desk on the 2nd Floor starting Mon, Jul 7 at 9am. Cardholders are limited to one event per family.
Fri, Jul 11 at 7:30pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
89th CSO Residency Opening Night
CSO + Marin Alsop, conductor / Bruce Liu, piano
Sat, Jul 12 at 7:30pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Gershwin’s Concerto in F
CSO + Marin Alsop, conductor / Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Fri, Jul 18 at 7:30pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Mahler’s Second Symphony: “Resurrection”
CSO & Chorus + Marin Alsop, conductor / Janai Brugger, soprano / Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Sun, Jul 20 at 5pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
CSO + Marin Alsop, conductor / Himari, violin
Fri, Jul 25 at 8pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Chef Sheherazade
CSO + Marin Alsop, conductor and co-curator / Molly Yeh, co-curator
Sun, Jul 27 at 5pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
“Italian” Mendelssohn & Elgar’s Enigma
CSO + Marin Alsop, conductor / Stephen Williamson, clarinet
Thu, Jul 31 at 7pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Lang Lang’s The Disney Book
CSO + Edwin Outwater, conductor
Fri, Aug 1 at 7:30pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience
CSO + Martin Gellner, conductor
Sat, Aug 9 at 7:30pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Debussy’s La mer & Bruch’s Concerto
CSO + Lidiya Yankovskaya, conductor / Ray Chen, violin
Sun, Aug 10 at 5pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
All-Mozart Evening
CSO + Louis Langrée, conductor / Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Sat, Aug 16 at 7:30 pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2
CSO + Peter Oundjian, conductor / Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano
Sun, Aug 17 at 5pm - 2 lawn passes (2 sets available)
Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1
CSO + David Robertson, conductor / Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello