Past Artistic Leadership
- Walter Hendl, artistic director (1959-1963)
- Seiji Ozawa, music director (1964-1968) and principal conductor (1969)
- István Kertész, principal conductor (1970-1972)
- James Levine, music director (1973-1993)
- Christoph Eschenbach, music director (1995-2003)
Read more about this topic: Ravinia Festival
Famous quotes containing the words artistic and/or leadership:
“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“This I do know and can say to you: Our country is in more danger now than at any time since the Declaration of Independence. We don’t dare follow the Lindberghs, Wheelers and Nyes, casting suspicion, sowing discord around the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We don’t want revolution among ourselves.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)