Reviews
August 23, 2010
Kalmar, Grant Park Orchestra Close the Summer in Grand Style with Mahler 
This Mahler performance largely provided a rousing ending to yet another rich season from the Grant Park Music Festival, one of our city’s leading cultural treasures. more...
August 22, 2010
Mahler Reaches Appropriate Heights Under Kalmar's Baton
The "Resurrection" also began the relationship between Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra that led him to become principal conductor of the summer music festival. more...
August 19, 2010
Gutiérrez, Kalmar Strike Sparks in Brahms Concerto
Conductor Carlos Kalmar brought a light touch to this forgettable piece, strings and brass nicely balanced and an impulsiveness that was quite enjoyable. With the brass singing out and the strings smooth and ingratiating. more...
August 14, 2010
Kalmar, Grant Park Forces Deliver Electrifying Account of Dvorak Requiem
Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus provided their own brand of electricity in a riveting, beautifully sung performance of Dvorak’s Requiem, which made for one of the most memorable musical events of this summer. more...
August 14, 2010
Grant Park, Kalmar Perform Dvorak with Ardor
Kalmar's account was perfectly, patiently scaled. The first half – Dvorak constructed the work in two parts to permit an intermission – crested with the big return of the chorus in the "Dies Irae," clamorous with chimes and organ. more...
August 14, 2010
A Sly 13th in Grant Park Fest
The Grant Park Music Festival may not have outwardly embraced Friday the 13th last night, but its first-ever program of Dvorak's rarely performed Requiem (1890) at least passed itself off as a sly salute. more...
August 12, 2010
Grant Park Orchestra Plays Back-up Band for African Kora Virtuoso
The Grant Park Symphony’s large, loyal audience is willing to hear new things, and its musicians and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar seem equally open to moving beyond the usual round of Beethoven and Brahms. more...
August 09, 2010
Ryan Opera Sounds Off at Other Grant Park Festival
A concert marked by good if not spectacular singing confirmed positive qualities one has noted previously in Ryan Center veterans. more...
August 02, 2010
At Pritzker Pavilion, Profound Sounds from Down Mexico Way
The program's century-long survey ranged broadly from pleasing nationalism to plucky modernism, and the Grant Park Orchestra and guest conductor Enrique Barrios were energized partners on the Pritzker pavilion stage. more...
