News & Reviews
News
July 20, 2010
Planet Earth Live Brings Nature Outdoors 
See BBC's Planet Earth Live outdoors in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday, July 21 and bring the BBC nature documentary out of your living room and into the Great Lawn of Millennium Park! more...
June 17, 2010
Grand Concert at Pritzker Pavilion Is a Neighborhood Event for Some
Read what a few Grant Park Music Festival members have to say about their concert-going experience. more...
June 15, 2010
Nine and a Half Weeks of Free Classical Music
Alexander Hough of The Chicagoist discusses the Festival's 2010 opening night and traditions that go along with enjoying the free outdoor classical music series in Millennium Park. more...
June 14, 2010
Kalmar Set to Open His Tenth Season with The Grant Park Music Festival
Chicago Classical Review gives an overview of the Festival's 2010 season with candid insight from Principal Conductor, Carlos Kalmar. more...
Reviews
July 30, 2010
A Rare Stravinsky Kiss
In the case of the Grant Park Music Festival this summer, there has rarely been that one sure bet for comfort-food programming. Instead, each week is more like a collective civic discovery, and such was the case more...
July 30, 2010
Lintu Brings Bracing Energy
A program that began with adapted Tchaikovsky ended with authentic Tchaikovsky, his tone poem "Capriccio italien." If nothing else, Lintu proved there's life in this pops potboiler yet. more...
July 19, 2010
Grant Park Debut Smacks of Child's Play
It generally succeeded in entertaining a contemporary audience in a way that was common a half century or more ago. more...
July 17, 2010
Grant Park Orchestra Offers Taste of Sophisticated Whimsy
Young families thronged to Millennium Park's Great Lawn as the Grant Park Orchestra performed whimsical works by Respighi, Britten and Brahms....the Grant Park Music Festival has engaged its mass audiences without forsaking creativity. more...
