Germaine Franco’s Grammy Award-winning Encanto Suite was featured in On the Movies, a concert presented by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as part of the fifth annual Breaking Barriers Festival at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois.

The program is co-curated by Ravinia Chief Conductor Marin Alsop and Oscar-nominated, Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman, and shines a spotlight on women composers in film. Franco’s Encanto Suite appears within “The Female Lens” Suite alongside works by Shirley Walker, Rachel Portman, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Chanda Dancy.

Guest conductor Chi-Yuan Lin, a Taki Alsop Conducting Fellow making her CSO and Ravinia debuts, leads the performance.

Learn more about the concert on the official Ravinia website

Performance:

Friday, July 24, 2026 — 8:00 PM

Location:

Hunter Pavilion, Ravinia Festival
200 Ravinia Park Road, Highland Park, IL 60035

This concert has been completed. View more details on the project page.

Full Show Program

Performance: “On the Movies” with Alsop & Karpman

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

  • Marin Alsop, conductor and co-curator
  • Laura Karpman, composer and co-curator
  • Chi-Yuan Lin, guest conductor
  • The Science of Scoring: “Perception & Touch of Evil”
  • Bernard Herrmann: “Scène d’amour” from Vertigo
  • Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
  • Henry Mancini: Original scene audio from Touch of Evil

 

  • “The Female Lens” Suite
  • Anna Meredith: Nautilus (arr. Jack Ross)
  • Chanda Dancy: Main Titles from Lawmen: Bass Reeves
  • Rachel Portman: Main Titles from Cider House Rules
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir: “Confessions” from A Haunting in Venice
  • Germaine Franco: Encanto Suite
  • Natalie Holt: “Hanging Out” from Obi-Wan Kenobi
  • John Williams: Star Wars Title Theme
  • Conducted by Chi-Yuan Lin

–Intermission–

  • Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Suite from ‘On the Waterfront’
  • Laura Karpman: Unsung: A Symphonic Suite for the Superhero Women of Classic Hollywood (Ravinia commission)
    • Theme I: Varinia (Spartacus, 1960)
    • Theme II: Phyllis Dietrichson (Double Indemnity, 1944)
    • Theme III: Annie Johnson (Imitation of Life, 1959)
    • Theme IV: Lady Marian (The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938)
  • Visual Collaboration: Four Movements in Blind Contour by Suzanne McClelland and Silvia Muleo

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