2010 Season
Vivaldi: Four Seasons
The Festival's 76th season opens with the Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi's beloved masterpiece, performed by Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä, making her Chicago debut. The program also includes Berlioz's Roman Carnival and Respighi's musical depiction of celebrations in the city of Rome, Feste Romane.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Elina Vähälä, Violin
Beethoven: Mass in C Major
This evening of transcendent works includes Beethoven's Mass in C major, Haydn's Te Deum, and Hindemith's Nobilissima Visione, inspired by Giotto's early-14th-century frescoes depicting the life of St. Francis.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 7:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 10:30am – 1:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, June 18, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Amber Wagner, Soprano
Kathryn Leemhuis, Mezzo Soprano
Bryan Griffin, Tenor
Paul Whelan, Bass
Pink Martini
The Grant Park Orchestra is joined by the renowned ensemble Pink Martini, which the New York Times dubbed, “a suave salon orchestra with a singer in a formal dress, ready to take up a torch song, tinkle through a light-classical staple or pick up some south-of-the-border rhythms.”
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Pink Martini
What
Bolero (Ravel)
Let’s Never Stop Falling in Love (Forbes/Lauderdale)
Sympathique (Forbes/Lauderdale)
Lilly (Forbes/Lauderdale)
Kikuchiyo to mohshimasu
Uskudar (Traditional)
The Flying Squirrel (Taylor/Lauderdale)
Splendor in the Grass (Lauderdale/Marashian)
And then you’re gone (Forbes/Marashian/Lauderdale)
But now I’m back (Marashian/Lauderdale)
La Soledad
Carioca (Youmans/Eliscu/Kahn)
Hey Eugene (Forbes)
U plavu zoru (Pink Martini)
Dosvedanya mio bombino (Forbes/Forbes)
Amado mio (Fisher/Roberts)
Brazil (Barroso)
The Pulitzer Project
A fascinating look at three early winners of this important classical music prize: including the rarely heard A Free Song by William Schuman (1943) and Aaron Copland's quintessentially American ballet Appalachian Spring Suite (1945). The program also features Chicago composer Leo Sowerby's The Canticle of the Sun (1946).
Where & When
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Concert: Friday, June 25, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, June 26, 2010, 7:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
What
Schuman: A Free Song, Secular Cantata No.2
Sowerby: The Canticle of the Sun
Copland: Appalachian Spring: Suite
Limited free seating for the balconies and the back of the main floor will be available on a first-come basis in the upper level lobby of the Harris Theater starting one hour prior to the performance start-time and seating will open thirty minuets prior to the performance start-time.
Muzyka Polska
In celebration of Chopin's 200th birthday his beloved first Piano Concerto shares the program with Krzesany by Kilar (known for his Oscar-winning score for The Pianist) and Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra, a work inspired by rich Polish folklore.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 8:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbański, Conductor
Krzysztof Jabłoński, Piano
What
Kilar: Krzesany
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
Independence Celebration in Millennium Park
Celebrate our country's birthday and musical heritage in a program featuring selections by American composers as well as three Europeans — Dvořák, Johann Strauss, Jr. and Tchaikovsky — whose visits left indelible marks on their music.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 2, 2010, 10:00am – 12:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Christopher Bell, Conductor
Chicago Human Rhythm Project's BAM!
World Champion Trinity Irish Dancers
What
Key: Star Spangled Banner
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Dvořŕk: Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World
Gould: American Salute
Wendel: Sea to Shining Sea
Porter: Can Can
Trad/Arr. Tate: 42nd Street Reel
Strauss: Champagne Polka
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Sousa: Stars and Stripes forever
Chorus A Cappella: French Sensuality
The Grant Park Chorus has developed a fine reputation for its committed performance of a cappella repertoire. This year the chorus turns its attention to the sensuous world of French music with works by Poulenc, Debussy, and Messiaen.
Where & When
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Concert: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 6:30pm
Who
Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
What
Saint-Saëns: Deux Choeurs, Op.68
Duruflé: Quatre Motets sur themes Grégoriens
Debussy: Trois Chanson de Charles d'Orleans
Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium
Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël
Ravel: Trois Chansons
Passereau: Si vous la baisez & Il est bel et bon
Limited free seating for the balconies and the back of the main floor will be available on a first-come basis in the upper level lobby of the Harris Theater starting one hour prior to the performance start-time and seating will open thirty minutes prior to the performance start-time.
Memoria del Fuego
Uruguayan author Galeano's masterpiece, Memory of Fire, is adapted for stage by Goodman Theatre Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez and set to a variety of Latin music. Readings in English and Spanish. This concert launches Goodman Theatre's 2010 Latino Theatre Festival.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
Henry Godinez, Director
Luis Valdez And Artists Of The Goodman Theater
What
Rodriguez: Mosaico Mexicano
Lopez: América Salvaje
Soro: Danza Fantástica
Mejia: Pequeńa Suite
Errazuriz: La Caravana
Ginastera: Malambo from Estancia, Op. 8a
Revueltas: Selections from La Noche de los Mayas
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang will take the podium for a program featuring the great Finnish composer's heroic symphony, the Orchestral Suite from Prokofiev's opera The Love for Three Oranges, and Antiphony, a recent work by Chinese composer Chen-Yi.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, July 9, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 7:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 10:30am – 1:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 9, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Xian Zhang, Conductor
What
Chen-Yi: Ge Xu (Antiphony)
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges: Symphonic Suite
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Petrushka
This program of infectious melodies and vivid harmonies of two Russian masters includes Tchaikovsky's work inspired by Shakespeare's magical last play, The Tempest, and his Variations on a Rococo Theme, plus Stravinsky's ballet about a puppet come to life at a country fair, Petrushka.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Hans Graf, Conductor
Alban Gerhardt, Cello
What
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest: Fantasy—Overture, op.18
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33
Stravinsky: Petrushka
The Magic Toy Shop
This family oriented concert includes Respighi's La Boutique Fantasque, with its depiction of the joyful dances of dolls in a toy shop come to life, as well as Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a perfect introduction to the orchestral instruments.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, July 16, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 7:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 16, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Julian Kuerti, Conductor
What
Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque
Brahms: Haydn Variations
Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Planet Earth Live
BBC Earth presents its ground-breaking nature documentary as it makes its world-premiere tour, featuring a score by two-time Emmy Award winning composer George Fenton, who also conducts. Planet Earth Live screens on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion stage with the Grant Park Orchestra performing the score along with the nature documentary. This astonishing film will, in the words of David Attenborough, "take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before."
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 8:15pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
George Fenton, Conductor
What
Overture
First Steps
Gone Fishing!
Journey to the Okavango
The Snow Leopard
The Cranes
Wish You Were Here! (Nice Work if you Can Get It)
Intermission
The Seasons
Caves
The Caribou Migration
Snow Geese
The Hunter and The Hunted
The Lucky Planet
A Child of Our Time
The English composer and pacifist Sir Michael Tippett's bold and massive choral work, written during the Second World War, explores an act of Jewish resistance. Among the piece's influences are African American spirituals and the music of Bach.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, July 23, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 7:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 10:30am – 1:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 23, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Christopher Bell, Conductor
Jonita Lattimore, Soprano
Anita Krause, Mezzo Soprano
Garrett Sorenson, Tenor
John Relyea, Bass
The Fairy’s Kiss
Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, which embodies both his creative genius and flamboyant showmanship, shares the program with Stravinsky's luminous ballet The Fairy's Kiss ( based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen), and Tchaikovsky's joyful Capriccio Italien.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Friday, July 30, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, Conductor
Markus Groh, Piano
What
Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, A major
Tchaikovsky: Cappriccio Italien
From Huapango to Danzón
The Grant Park Orchestra joins Mexico's 2010 Commemorations with an evening of classical music by Mexican composers.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 7:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 30, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Enrique Barrios, Conductor
What
Moncayo: Huapango
Galindo: Sones de Mariachi
Chávez: Sinfonía India
Hernández-Medrano: Homenaje a Copland
Revueltas: Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca
Zyman: Encuentros
Márquez: Danzón No. 2
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff Returns
This delightfully varied program begins with the rousing Lollapalooza by John Adams and continues with Dvorák's folk-inspired Violin Concerto, and ends with Shostakovich's enigmatic Symphony No. 9, composed at the end of the Second World War.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
Mozart and Rossini Finales with Ryan Opera Center
The Festival collaborates with Lyric Opera's Ryan Opera Center and its ensemble of rising vocal stars for an evening of opera scenes including La Cenerentola and L'Italiana in Algieri by Rossini and Mozart's Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro.
Where & When
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Concert: Friday, August 6, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, August 7, 2010, 7:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Artists Of The Ryan Opera Center
What
Rossini: La Cenerentola, Finale Act 1
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Finale
Rossini: L’Italiana in Algieri, Finale Act 1
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Finale Act 2
**** IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT THESE CONCERTS ****
Due to high demand, there are no longer free, reserved balcony seats available. Unlike other concerts in the Harris Theater, there will be NO WALK-UP FREE seating for these programs.
If you have already made a reservation for free seating, please pick up your tickets in the upper level lobby of the Harris Theater anytime starting one hour prior to the performance. 2010 Grant Park Music Festival Season Members will receive access to reserved seating on the main floor, as at other programs in the Harris Theater.
Again, due to high demand, there are NO LONGER FREE SEATS AVAILABLE for either night.
Toumani Diabaté: Kora Music from West Africa
World-renowned kora player from Mali and his ensemble join the Grant Park Orchestra to perform an adaption of his recent album, The Mandé Variations and other works.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Toumani Diabaté, Kora
Dvorák: Requiem
The Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus provide a rare opportunity to hear Dvořák's richly expressive and passionate choral masterpiece; this work was among the most popular choral works of his lifetime.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, August 13, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 7:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 10:30am – 1:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Layla Claire, Soprano
Alexandra Petersamer, Mezzo Soprano
Brendan Tuohy, Tenor
Kyle Ketelsen, Bass
Brahms and Bizet
An evening exploring the legacy of national traditions includes Saint-Saëns' Marche Militaire Francaise, Bizet's vivacious Symphony No.1 and Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 1 interpreted by renowned Cuban-born pianist Horacio Gutierrez.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 6:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Horacio Gutiérrez, Piano
What
Saint-Saëns: Marche Militaire Francaise
Bizet: Symphony No. 1 in C major
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
This masterpiece is among music's most monumental experiences. This season-ending program is also a special celebration of Principal Conductor Carlos Kalmar's 10th Anniversary with the Grant Park Music Festival.
Where & When
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, August 20, 2010, 6:30pm
Concert: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 7:30pm
Open Rehearsal: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 10:30am – 1:00pm
Open Rehearsal: Friday, August 20, 2010, 11:00am – 1:30pm
Who
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Karina Gauvin, Soprano
Allyson McHardy, Mezzo Soprano