Press Releases

 Home » About NSLS » Press Releases

Ravinia Festival and Local Libraries Make Beautiful Music Together

 

NEWS RELEASE
August 8, 2003

Photo: High resolution digital format available upon request.

For further information contact:
Judy Hoffman, 847/353-7137

Ravinia Festival and Chicago area libraries have been making beautiful music together for many years. Welz Kauffman, President and CEO of the Ravinia Festival, talked to Sarah Long, director of the North Suburban Library System and host of What's New in Libraries? about this harmonious partnership for the August edition of the award-winning cable show.

Ravinia became a partner of Chicago area public libraries in 1996 with the Words & Music program, which provides free concert lawn passes to libraries for distribution to patrons. The partnership expanded this season with the One Score initiative. Borrowing a page from the Chicago Public Library's One Book, One Chicago, One Score was created to give deeper understanding of music to wider audiences, demonstrate that classical music is a living, changing art form, and to connect our communities through classical music. The inaugural season focuses on Hector Berlioz's masterwork, Symphonie fantastique. Ravinia sponsored presentations at many area libraries this summer, as well as providing free resource guides to the Berlioz symphony.

"With its welcoming, family-friendly park environment, Ravinia is the perfect place to introduce audiences to classical music, and the library system has been the ideal partner in getting that message out," said Kauffman. "One Score could not work without the support of our libraries."

Kauffman's full interview can be seen on What's New in Libraries? through August. Produced by the North Suburban Library System, the half hour cable show airs in over 60 communities throughout the north and northwest Chicago suburbs. What's New in Libraries? has been recognized for excellence with a Telly Award in 2000 and a 2002 John Cotton Dana Public Relations Award. For broadcast times in your community visit www.whatsnewinlibraries.org or check with your local library.

Headquartered in Wheeling, the North Suburban Library System is an organization of over 650 academic, public, school and special libraries in the north suburban area of Cook County and communities in Kane, Lake and McHenry counties. It is one of 12 library systems in Illinois, funded through the Illinois State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.