Ravinia Denies Chicago Symphony Report

Chicago’s Ravinia Festival – longtime summer home of the Chicago Symphony – says it doesn’t plan to “drastically reduce its number of Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts in future seasons, despite a report suggesting otherwise in Monday’s Crain’s Chicago Business…” The festival says that “ticket sales in Ravinia’s 3,200-seat pavilion are down 5 percent so far for CSO concerts compared with last summer. But reducing the number of CSO performances is only one option to be considered when the orchestra’s contract with Ravinia comes up for renewal after next season.”