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MIRIAM FRIED SAYS FAREWELL TO RAVINIA’S PIANO & STRINGS

Ravinia Steans Music Institute (RSMI)—Ravinia Festival’s distinguished summer training program for young professional voice, jazz, piano, and string musicians—enters its 36th season this June on a bittersweet note, saluting world-renowned violinist Miriam Fried for her 30-year leadership of the Program for Piano & Strings as she prepares to step down as program director of the

SEEDS OF LOVE

Newlyweds Elizabeth and Peter Grubbe fell in love over organic arugula and heirloom tomatoes. It is hard to imagine a more fitting beginning for these two first-generation farmers, who own one of northern Illinois’ largest organic farms— Middlebury Farm. Peter has been growing and selling produce almost his whole life. When he was in sixth

THE BUZZ: MAY 2023

THE 2023 LAKE FOREST SHOWHOUSE & GARDENS TO OPEN MAY 6TH FEATURING HONORARY CHAIRS ASHLEY WHITTAKER AND TIMOTHY WHEALON A red brick Georgian-style Lake Forest home designed in the late 1960s by architect William Frazier has been utterly transformed for the 2023 Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens. Over 35 leading interior and landscape designers have

GOOD VIBRATIONS

Music pulsated Thaddeus Tukes’ childhood house in Hyde Park. His parents, Warren and Celeste, liked to play Gospel and old-school soul at their home in Chicago, as well as the occasional Motown song. “My parents fostered an appreciation for music when I was young,” recalls the 29-year-old Tukes, who still calls Hyde Park home. “I

#HASHTAG: BETH BOYD

Asked to serve as Ragdale’s President of the Board of Trustees in the midst of a pandemic and a nationwide reckoning with racism following George Floyd’s murder, BETH BOYD saw an opportunity to help the nonprofit serve its artists better and smarter in a changing world. Indeed, over the past two years Ragdale has built

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