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Violinist Itzhak Perlman solos Felix Mendelssohn’s E Minor concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in a concert also showcasing Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Ravinia.Piano duo Zofo world-premieres Carl Vine’s “Zofomorphosis” with the Grant Park Orchestra, rescheduled from its June postponement, when conductor Carlos Kalmar was sidelined with COVID.As always, the Friday practice day brings smaller crowds, and you don’t have to be right on North Avenue Beach to see the action.

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This year, it’s back to full throttle-or maybe even beyond it, like Tom Cruise going past Mach 10 in the opening of “Top Gun: Maverick”-with both the Navy’s and the Air Force’s historically significant plane teams, the co-headlining Blue Angels and Golden Knights parachute team, as well as plenty of civilian aerobatics. COVID, however, grounded the 2020 Chicago Air & Water Show entirely and scaled back the 2021 event. Chicago Air & Water Showīased as it is on the physically (but never acoustically) distant activity of piloting noteworthy airplanes, an air show might have cruised through a pandemic. After the completion of The Creation, the festival reaches the day of rest until next June.

The piece begins with a representation of chaos-or at least as much chaos as Classical-era ears were ready for-wandering around in C minor before a huge C major entrance with “Let there be light.” The chorus and soloists then introduce the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land, the beasts of the field, and Adam and Eve. The Grant Park Music Festival’s 2022 season ends in the beginning, pooling the orchestra and chorus for one of Joseph Haydn’s greatest, um, creations: an oratorio called The Creation, using texts from the Book of Genesis. “Definitely heightened, brightened and electrified from what one might find in our Impressionism galleries.”Īrt Institute of Chicago. “The colors are even more vibrant than what they seem on the screen,” she says.

Farrell says the sense of the backlit screen translates. appearance, shows 116 works, two of which are process videos and the rest are prints on paper hung on the gallery walls. out there with him-just an iPad and stylus. Unlike his French-countryside predecessors, Hockney didn’t need to lug an easel, canvas, paint tubes, etc. “There’s an incredible freedom in this technology he’s using,” says Robyn Farrell, associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. That is, if “painted” is even the best word to describe what happens with Hockney’s chosen medium: the iPad.

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In early 2020, celebrated visual artist David Hockney arrived in the French countryside to capture the unfolding of spring in a series of landscapes painted en plein air, positioning himself in a long tradition of iterative landscapes, such as Monet’s haystacks. 19.ĭavid Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020

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The Gift Theatre, currently itinerant while it develops a new space in its home neighborhood of Jefferson Park, world-premieres “The Locusts,” a thriller about a policewoman who returns to her hometown to stop a serial killer.

“Refuge,” a new show about a Honduran girl crossing the border from Mexico into Texas, promises original music, puppetry and a bilingual script.“The Malignant Ampersands,” a world-premiere unauthorized sequel to Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons,” follows a formerly wealthy family a hundred years later.Sebastian,” a dark comedy about a gay white couple that moves into a Black neighborhood to flip a house. A theater company newly relocated to Chicago debuts with “St.Kokandy Productions at the Chopin Theatre. Stephen Sondheim’s having-people-for-dinner musical “Sweeney Todd” serves as a sharp curtain-raiser for the fall season, from a respected, 10-year-old company most recently finishing up a “Cruel Intentions” musical (see below).