Don’t miss our non-stop celebration of outstanding classical masterpieces including Holst's The Planets, Ravel's Bolero, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and family favorites from Broadway’s Rodgers and Hammerstein to our popular Independence Day Salute.
Rhapsody in Blue
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor & Piano - Andrew Litton
Program
Gabriela Lena Frank – Three Latin American Dances
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Manuel de Falla – Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat
Holst The Planets
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor and Chorus Director - Christopher Bell
Assistant Chorus Director - Benjamin Rivera
Program
Lili Boulanger – Psalm 24
Jake Runestad – Earth Symphony
Gustav Holst – The Planets
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Violin - Jeremy Black
Program
Adolphus Hailstork – An American Port of Call
Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto
Leonard Bernstein – Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
Mahler Symphony No. 1
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Trumpet - Pacho Flores
Program
Clarice Assad - Baião N’ Blues
Arturo Márquez – Concierto de Otoño
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1, Titan
Mozart Paris Symphony
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Woodwind Quintet - Imani Winds
Program
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Valerie Coleman – Phenomenal Women
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 31, Paris
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Program
Augusta Read Thomas – Brio
Richard Wagner - Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 10
Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Osmo Vänskä
Violin - Paul Huang
Program
Henry Dorn – Transitions
Max Bruch – Scottish Fantasy
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Independence Day Salute
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Christopher Bell
Marimba - Josh Jones
Mezzo-Soprano - Imara Miles
Program
Irving Berlin/Orchd. Sid Ramin – Berlin Patriotic Overture
Arr. Charles Sayre – Broadway Showstoppers
George Gershwin/Arr. Bill Holcombe – Someone to Watch Over Me
Claude-Michel Schönberg/Arr. Bob Krogstad – I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables
Arr. Robert Wendel – A George M. Cohan Overture (with audience singalong)
Duke Ellington/Arr. Calvin Custer – Duke Ellington!
Traditional/Arr. Robert Hanson – Yankee Doodle Fantasy
Peter Boyer – Rolling River
Arr. Robert Wendel – From Sea to Shining Sea
Arr. Robert Lowden – Armed Forces Salute
Irving Berlin/Arr. Bill Holcombe – God Bless America
Ward, Samuel/Arr. John Morris Russel and Tim Berens– America the Beautiful
John Philip Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever
Debussy La Mer
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Nicole Paiement
Cello - Inbal Segev
Program
BedÅ™ich Smetana – The Moldau
Mark Adamo – Last Year
Claude Debussy – La Mer
Brahms Symphony No. 2
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor - Anthony Parnther
Guest Chorus Director - Eugene Rogers
Soprano - Janai Brugger
Baritone - Sankara Harouna
Program
Anton Bruckner – Psalm 150
Margaret Bonds – Credo
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Elgar Enigma Variations
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Courtney Lewis
Cello - Inbal Segev
Program
Johann Strauss Jr. – Overture to Die Fledermaus
Anna Clyne – Dance
Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Keri-Lynn Wilson
Violin - Augustin Hadelich
Program
Mykola Lysenko - Overture to Taras Bulba
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto
Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 5
Ravel Bolero
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Lee Mills
Piano - Joyce Yang
Program
Gioachino Rossini – Overture to The Barber of Seville
Manuel de Falla – Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Franz Liszt/orch. Ferruccio Busoni – Rhapsody Espagnole
Maurice Ravel – Bolero
The Magic of Rodgers & Hammerstein
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor - Lawrence Loh
Chorus Director - Christopher Bell
Vocalists - Mamie Parris, John Riesen, and Lisa Vroman
Program
Overture to South Pacific
It’s A Grand Night For Singing from State Fair
All The Things You Are from Very Warm For May
Johnny One Note from Babes in Arms
Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific
Wonderful Guy from South Pacific
Nothing Like A Dame from South Pacific
The Sound of Music from The Sound of Music
Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music
Climb Every Mountain from The Sound of Music
Waltz from Carousel
June Is Bustin’ Out All Over from Carousel
Mr. Snow from Carousel
Soliloquy from Carousel
Shall We Dance from King and I
Falling in Love with Love from The Boys From Syracuse
Old Man River from Showboat
People Will Say We’re In Love from Oklahoma
Oklahoma from Oklahoma
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Joseph Young
Piano - Steven Osborne
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4
Howard Hanson – Symphony No. 2, Romantic
Songs of Love and Life
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Mezzo-Soprano - J'Nai Bridges
Program
Brian Nabors – Pulse
Peter Lieberson – Neruda Songs
Missy Mazzoli – These Worlds In Us
Richard Strauss – Death and Transfiguration
Stravinsky Firebird
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Chorus Director - Christopher Bell
Violin - Jennifer Koh
Program
Benjamin Britten – The Building of the House
Jennifer Higdon – The Singing Rooms
Lera Auerbach – Icarus
Igor Stravinsky – Suite from The Firebird (1919 version)
Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Piano - Clayton Stephenson
Program
Chelsea Komschlies – Mycelialore
Franz Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns – Symphony No. 3, Organ
Carmina Burana
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor - Giancarlo Guerrero
Chorus Director - Christopher Bell
Soprano - Jana McIntyre
Countertenor - John Holiday
Baritone - Troy Cook
Children Chorus - Uniting Voices Chicago
Program
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Overture
Alan Hovhaness – Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana