Lake Forest Symphony is pleased to announce that Music in the Garden, an event to benefit the Symphony, will take place on Sunday, June 14th from 4:00 - 7:00 pm at the Mettawa Manor home of Donna LaPietra and Bill Kurtis.
Music in the Garden will celebrate the sights, sounds and tastes of the season with tours of the spectacular gardens at Mettawa Manor and a performance by the brilliant violinist, Rachel Barton Pine. There will also be tasting stations featuring wine, savories and sweets. Proceeds of this event will benefit The Lake Forest Symphony as it completes yet another concert season and looks forward to the future!
The event is an opportunity to immerse oneself in the beauty of music and nature. Rachel Barton Pine, the exceptionally talented and highly acclaimed violinist, will perform and also introduce hand-selected young talent from the Music Institute of Chicago. The delightful Sheila Tully Irish Dancers will also be on hand.
Tours of the Mettawa Manor gardens will be led by Bill Kurtis. Built in 1927 as a family compound, Donna La Pietra and Bill Kurtis are only the second owners in the manor’s rich history and they have been working for the past sixteen years to refurbish some garden areas and create new ones. The centerpiece is a walled English-style garden with forty-foot perennial borders on either side of a sunken lawn that leads to a spring walk and rose room centered on an old fountain. Outside the east gate is a golden garden and an orchard/meadow bordered by a fenced potager, cutting garden, and circular herb garden. The sixty-five-acre property has two ponds, a woodland tree house, a ten-acre prairie, a parkland of specimen trees, and is surrounded by a newly reclaimed oak-hickory forest.
The Music Institute of Chicago students who will be performing include: Matthew Lipman, viola; Ade Williams, violin; Gallia Kastner, violin; and Johannes Gray, cello.
Tickets for this event are $175
per person and available by calling the Lake Forest Symphony office at
847-295-2135 - or click here
to download a PDF reservation form that can be faxed in to the Symphony office. Reservations are limited and must be made
in advance of the event. A hand-crafted Chains of Hope area rug from Arzu will also be raffled off at the event. The rug was donated by Arzu, whose
rug collection unites the designes of creative geniuses and the mission of
Arzu to provide a sustainable life for Afghan women and their families.
For more information about this event, contact the Lake Forest Symphony
office: 847-295-2135
