Just days before making his Ravinia debut on November 16 with a solo concert in Bennett Gordon Hall, the 2021 American Prize–winning tenor Ryan Townsend Strand makes his solo recording debut with music from his signature song project Letters to Jackie. The specially commissioned songs from composers across generations—Augusta Read Thomas, Jen Shyu, Will Liverman, Tom Cipullo, Libby Larsen, Nicholas Cline, Adore Alexander, Skyler Butenshon, Matthew Recio, Timothy C. Takach, and Erik Pearson—set to letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The album, Dear Mrs. Kennedy, is being released by Sono Luminus on November 8; the Ravinia concert performance also features songs by B.E. Boykin, Aaron Helgeson, and LJ White written for Letters to Jackie.