Current Area
When & Where
Concerts
Wed
Jun
14
2017
Jay Pritzker PavilionInfo
Program
Hugo Alfvén: Festival Overture
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
Description
Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra open the Festival's 2017 season with one of the most enduring violin concertos of all time featuring Vadim Gluzman. The evening gets started with Alfvén's Festival Overture and a medley of the best-known music from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
Featured performers:
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Vadim Gluzman, Violin