Words and Music

Chicago Public Library and Ravinia Festival proudly offer the Words and Music program. Each summer, patrons may visit any library location to pick up free lawn passes to selected Ravinia Festival concerts. Lawn passes are made available at the beginning of the Ravinia Festival season. Enhance an evening under the stars at Ravinia by first exploring the music collection of your neighborhood Chicago Public Library.

Availability

Chicago Public Library cardholders may obtain a limited number of Ravinia lawn passes at any Chicago Public Library branch, Sulzer and Woodson Regional Libraries, and the Music Information Center on the eighth floor of the Harold Washington Library Center. The Words and Music program allows you to learn firsthand about the world of music offered at Ravinia Festival and Chicago Public Library.

Guidelines

• Anyone 18 or older with a valid Chicago Public Library card may obtain Words and Music lawn passes.
• A maximum of two Words and Music lawn passes a concert and four passes a day may be obtained at all library locations.
• Words and Music lawn passes may not be reserved in advance.

One Score, One Chicago

Borrowing a page from the Chicago Public Library’s One Book, One Chicago program, Ravinia Festival launched One Score, One Chicago in 2003 to highlight an important piece of music each season. One Score, One Chicago gives a deeper understanding of music to wider audiences, demonstrating that classical music is a living, changing art form and connecting the city through classical music.

Words and Music Concert Schedule 2013

Pick up tickets at any CPL location beginning at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, June 8.

• Rachmaninoff Vespers performed by The Singers
  Wednesday, June 19, 8:30 p.m.
• Peter Serkin, Pianist
  Friday, June 21, 8:00 p.m.
• Zuckerman Chamber Players
  Monday, June 24, 8:00 p.m.
• Matthias Goerne, Baritone in recital
  Monday, July 1, 8:00 p.m.
• RSMI 25th Anniversary Concert
  Friday, July 5, 8:00 p.m.
• Music of the Baroque presents Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt
  Tuesday, July 9, 8:00 p.m.
• Juilliard String Quartet
  Wednesday, July 10, 8:00 p.m.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra, All-Beethoven program
  Thursday, July 11, 8:00 p.m.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra, All-Beethoven program
  Friday, July 12, 8:00 p.m.
• Brooklyn Rider
  Tuesday, July 16, 8:00 p.m.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Shubert’s Unfinished Symphony
  Thursday, July 18, 8:00 p.m.
• James Conlon Showcase, Benjamin Britten Centennial
  Wednesday, July 24, 8:00 p.m.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Symphony No. 7
  Thursday, July 25, 8:00 p.m.
• Mozart in the Winds
  Wednesday, July 31, 8:00 p.m.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Soloists, Verdi’s Aida in Concert
  Saturday, August 3, 7:30 p.m.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Itzhak Perlman, Violinist
  Wednesday, August 7, 8:00 p.m.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman, Cond., Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symph.
  Thursday, August 8, 8:00 p.m.
• Emerson String Quartet
  Tuesday, August 13, 8:00 p.m.
• Vladimir Feltsman, Pianist
  Wednesday, August 14, 8:00 p.m.