Admission is free. Calico Winds is a professional wind quintet that was formed in 1994. The group's name is intended to invoke the image of multiple colors and textures symbolized by calico fabric. Ravinia's Steans Institute is comprised of young, professional musicians. This chamber music concert is at Lutkin Hall.
Admission is free.
Highlighting the varied sounds of summer, the Summer Band performs overtures, marches and transcriptions reminiscent of old-fashioned band concerts in the park. Stephen G. Peterson will conduct the Pick-Staiger concert. Blair Milton coordinates this evening of chamber music, including Shostakovich's String Quartet no. 4 in D Major, one of the Soviet composer's 15 groundbreaking quartets. Cellist Melissa Kraut, violist Claudia Lasareff-Mironof and violinists Anne Nagosky and David Hays perform during the Lutkin Hall concert. Admission is free.