Procol Harum at Ravinia Park, Illinois, America • July 1970

Three snippets of background press preceding the gig

Palatine Illinois Herald, 17 July 1970.

Another week at Ravinia

England's classical rock blues group Procol Harum will be featured tonight at Ravinia.

Maestro Kertesz’s Saturday evening performance will be devoted to the music of Dvorak. His soloist in the concerto for cello will be Janos Starker.

The young peoples’ [sic] program Saturday, at 11 am, will feature Pickwick puppet Theatre, life-size puppets in Arabian Nights, performed to the Rimsky-Korsakov symphonic suite, Scheherazade.

Sunday at 7.30 pm Jose Greco and his company will entertain the audience with a program of Spanish dance.

Peter Serkin and Yuji Takahashi will present a duo piano recital Monday in the Murray Theatre [yes, spelt the English way], and Tuesday Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist, and Iszhak Perlman, violinist, will perform.

Hank Williams Jr will star in a country-Western show beginning at 8.30 pm on Wednesday.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be at Ravinia next Thursday.

Waukegan Illinois News-Sun 16 July 1970

British rock

England's famous classical rock blues group, Procol Harum, will appear at 8.30 pm Friday at Ravinia Park. A young people's programme at 11 am Saturday will feature the Pickwick Puppet Theater, life-size puppets in Arabian Nights.  

The Evanston Illinois Review 16 July 1970

Ravinia slates Istvan Kertesz

Soviet pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy will be the soloist with Maestro Istvan Kertesz and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Prokofieff's Piano Concerto No 2 at 8.30 pm tonight in Ravinia Park.

 The orchestra will also perform two works by Brahms: The Tragic Overture and Symphony No 1.

England's classical rock blues group, Procol Harum, will be the Friday evening attraction. They have produced successful albums, and their own lyricist, Keith Reid, is responsible for everything the group has recorded.

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