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PRÊT À PICNIC THE 2019 RAVINIA FESTIVAL SEASON INCLUDES HEAVY HITTERS SUCH AS STING AND A FIRST-TIME APPEARANCE BY LIONEL RITCHIE
Is There a Doctor in the House? TRIFECTA GRILL’S NEWEST “BUSBOY” TAPS HIS MEDICAL KNOW-HOW TO SAVE A CHOKING CUSTOMER
BY DONALD LIEBENSON THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Ravinia Festival President and CEO Welz Kauffman begins his 19th year with North America’s longest-running music festival as the Chicago Tribune’s 2018 Chicagoan of the Year for Classical Music. But he is hardly resting on his laurels. This year’s season will present 140 events between May 31 (Chicago jazz legend Ramsey Lewis is the opener) and September 15. Seventy of the artists, including Tash Saltana ( June 1), Lionel Ritchie ( June 11-12), Lady Antebellum ( July 10), Queen Latifah (August 31), Kesha (September 8) and Morrissey (September 14), will be making their debuts in Ravinia’s Pavilion. Fifty works will be performed at Ravinia for the first time, including “Penelope,” ( July 28) the last piece by Andre Previn, who passed away last February that will be performed by Renee Fleming and the Emerson String Quarter. A summer at Ravinia wouldn’t be the same without Tony Bennett, who, at 92, will perform on June 21. Other returning local Continued on PG 8 Dr. William Benge PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR BY ANN MARIE SCHEIDLER THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Dr. William Benge, a Harvard-trained cardiologist, recently retired from working with Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest
Hospital and had some time on his hands. “I’ve been teasing my family that they needed to find me a job,” Dr. Benge says with a laugh. “I was getting a little restless.” Dr. Benge’s daughter, Alina, works at Trifecta Grill in Winnetka. On the Saturday evening before St. Patrick’s Day, the
restaurant found itself one busboy short. “We knew we were going to be busy because it was St. Patrick’s Day weekend so I texted my dad, half jokingly, and asked him if he would mind filling in,” Alina Continued on PG 9
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