In its 83rd season, the Festival brought back Beethoven's masterpiece, the Ninth Symphony, and featured other well-known works such as Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1. The season also brought a tribute concert for John Williams, featuring the soundtrack from Star Wars and more.
Opening Night: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Vadim Gluzman, Violin
Program
Hugo Alfvén: Festival Overture
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
A Sea Symphony
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Sara Jakubiak, Soprano
David John Pike, Baritone
Program
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Susanna Phillips, Soprano
Program
Richard Wagner: A Faust Overture
Aaron Copland: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Stravinsky Firebird
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Conrad Tao, Piano
Program
David Schiff: Infernal
Aram Khachaturian: Piano Concerto
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird
Missa Latina
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus;
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Guest Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Jessica Rivera, Soprano
Takaoki Onishi, Baritone
Program
Roberto Sierra: Missa Latina
Canada's 150th Birthday Celebration with the Canadian Brass
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Lucas Waldin, Guest Conductor
Canadian Brass
Alison Wahl, Vocalist
Program
Lavallée (Arr. Gilliland): O Canada
Hétu: Légendes, Opus 76
Mitchell (Arr. Pellett): Big Yellow Taxi
Hemsworth (Arr. Pellett): Log Driver's Waltz
Arr. Faith: Theme from A Summer Place/Moulin Rouge
Campbell/Harron (Arr. Farnon): Excerpt from Symphonic Suite from Anne of Green Gables
Cable: The Banks of Newfoundland
Waller (Arr. Henderson): Fats Waller Suite
Handy (Arr. Henderson): Beale Street Blues
Lennon/McCartney (Arr. Dedrick): Tribute to the Beatles
Traditional/Handel (Arr. Henderson): Saints’ Hallelujah
Independence Day Salute
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Christopher Bell, Conductor
Program
Edwin Eugene Bagley: National Emblem March
Leroy Anderson: Bugler's Holiday
Leroy Anderson: Syncopated Clock
Leroy Anderson: Fiddle-Faddle
Robert Wendel: St. Bailey's Rag
Antonin Dvořák: Largo from the "New World" Symphony
Malcolm Arnold: Four Scottish Dances
Morton Gould: American Salute
George M. Cohan (Arr. John Cacavas): Star-Spangled Spectacular
Victor Herbert: Festival (Auditorium) March
Johann Strauss Jr.: Champagne Polka
Arr. Robert Lowden: Armed Forces Salute
Arr. Carmen Dragon: America, the Beautiful
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
John Philip Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever
Star Wars and More: The Music of John Williams
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins, Guest Conductor
Program
Superman March from Superman
Main Title from Star Wars
Flight to Neverland from Hook
Theme from Jurassic Park
Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
Excerpts from The Cowboys
The Imperial March from Star Wars
Duel of the Fates from Star Wars: Episode I
Yoda’s Theme from The Empire Strikes Back
Viktor’s Tale from The Terminal
March from 1941
Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone
Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Haydn London Symphony
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Fawzi Haimor, Guest Conductor
Program
Kareem Roustom: Ramal
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104, London
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
Grant Park Chorus: Rachmaninov Vespers
Featuring
Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Program
Sergei Rachmaninov: Vespers (All Night Vigil)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Gemma New, Guest Conductor
Andrew Tyson, Piano
Program
Matthew Hindson: Headbanger
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Symphonia domestica
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, Guest Conductor
Angelo Xiang Yu, Violin
Program
Kenji Bunch: Supermaximum
Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Aaron Copland: The Red Pony
A Broadway Romance
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Ted Sperling, Guest Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Laura Osnes And Santino Fontana, Vocalists
Program
George Gershwin: Overture to Girl Crazy
Frank Loesser: Song of a Summer Night from The Most Happy Fella
Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim: Something's Coming from West Side Story
Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein: Out of My Dreams from Oklahoma!
Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick: Tonight at Eight/Will He Like Me from She Loves Me
Benj Pasek/Justin Paul: First Date/Last Night from Dogfight
Jule Styne/Betty Comden and Adolph Green: I Met a Girl from Bells Are Ringing
Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein: Ten Minutes Ago from Cinderella
Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein: If I Loved You from Carousel
Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein: You Are Never Away from Allegro
Kristen Anderson-Lopez/Robert Lopez: Love is an Open Door from Frozen
Irving Berlin: Old-Fashioned Wedding from Annie Get Your Gun
Stephen Sondheim: Getting Married Today from Company
Jason Robert Brown: Next Ten Minutes from The Last Five Years
Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg: The Begat from Finian's Rainbow
Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens: Our Children from Ragtime
Adam Guettel: Dividing Day from The Light in the Piazza
Stephen Sondheim: Buddy's Blues and Could I Leave You from Follies
Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe: How to Handle a Woman from Camelot
Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer: Come Rain or Come Shine from St. Louis Woman
Leonard Bernstein: Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Stephen Hough, Piano
Program
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, 6
Mozart Linz Symphony
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Colleen Daly, Soprano
Lauren Segal, Mezzo-Soprano
David Pomeroy, Tenor
James Westman, Baritone
Daniel Okulitch, Bass
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 36, Linz
Frank Martin: In terra pax
The Spanish Guitar
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, Guitar
Program
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga: Los esclavos felices: Overture
Georges Bizet: Suite from Carmen
Joaquín Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre
Joaquín Turina: Danzas fantàsticas
Debussy La Mer
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
François Leleux, Oboe
Program
Paul Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and Brass
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D Major
Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Claude Debussy: La Mer
An Evening with Mariachi Cobre
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Program
Mariachi Cobre joins the Grant Park Orchestra for an evening of traditional Mexican folk music.
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony + A World Premiere
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Jonathan Boen, Horn
Program
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture: The Tsar's Bride
Aaron Jay Kernis: Legacy (World Premiere)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
Haydn Cello Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Harriet Krijgh, Cello
Program
Ottorino Respighi: The Birds
Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major
George Whitefield Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Benjamin Rivera, Guest Chorus DIrector
Janai Brugger, Soprano
Allyson McHardy, Mezzo-Soprano
Brendan Tuohy, Tenor
Russell Braun, Bass
Program
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9