Sala: Ravinia Festival Pavilion, Chicago

At the Ravinia Festival, David Zinman conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the eminent violinist Gil Shaham in music by Prokofiev and Brahms.

David Zinman marked his own 80th birthday and the CSO's 80th Ravinia season with Bernstein's The Age of Anxiety featuring the formidable Misha Dichter, and Brahms' bucolic Second Symphony.

James Levine returned to Ravinia to conduct the Chicago Symphony for the first time since stepping down as music director in 1993 in a monumental performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony – the same piece with which he debuted in 1971.

Two titans of classical music present a program of violin sonatas.

Seth MacFarlane showed his many talents in an evening celebrating the Great American Songbook.

In James Conlon's final performance as music director of Ravinia, he presented a magnificent Flying Dutchman with a stellar cast.