Want Symphonic: Rufus Wainwright with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia
Fri, Aug 11
|Highland Park
Want One and Want Two 20th Anniversary Tour
Time & Location
Aug 11, 2023, 8:00 PM
Highland Park, 200 Ravinia Park Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035, USA
About the event
About the Artist
Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and composers of his generation. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer-songwriter has released 13 studio albums to date, including live recording like the Grammy-nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. He has written two operas, numerous songs for movies and TV, and is currently working on his first musical. Wainwright’s latest Grammy and Juno nominated album, Unfollow the Rules, finds him in fresh artistic maturity with passion, honesty, and a new-found fearlessness.
Performers
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lee Mills, conductor Rufus Wainwright, vocalist
Program
Want One and Want Two released over 2003–4, are as iconic as it can get in an iconic musician’s catalogue. Rolling Stone wrote that “Rufus Wainwright’s fanciful songs about love and faith place him in the rarefied company of Bjork and Brian Wilson.”…