2010 Season
Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Elina Vähälä, Violin
Program
Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival
Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Ottorino Respighi: Feste Romane
Beethoven Mass in C Major
Fri, Jun 18, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, Jun 19, 2010, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
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
Program
Franz Joseph Haydn: Te Deum
Paul Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione
Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass, Op. 86, C major
Pink Martini
Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Pink Martini
Program
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
Fri, Jun 25, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, Jun 26, 2010, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Program
William Schuman: A Free Song, Secular Cantata No.2
Leo Sowerby: The Canticle of the Sun
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring: Suite
Muzyka Polska
Wed, Jun 30, 2010, 8-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbański, Conductor
Krzysztof Jabłoński, Piano
Program
Wojciech Kilar: Krzesany
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Witold Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
Independence Celebration in Millennium Park
Sat, Jul 3, 2010, 1:30-3:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Christopher Bell, Conductor
Chicago Human Rhythm Project's BAM!
World Champion Trinity Irish Dancers
Program
Francis Scott Key: Star Spangled Banner
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Antonín Dvořàk: Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World
Morton Gould: American Salute
Robert Wendel: Sea to Shining Sea
Cole Porter: Can Can
Trad/Arr. Tate: 42nd Street Reel
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Champagne Polka
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
Chorus A Cappella: French Sensuality
Tue, Jul 6, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Thu, Jul 8, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
Program
Camille Saint-Saëns: Deux Choeurs, Op.68
Maurice Duruflé: Quatre Motets sur themes Grégoriens
Claude Debussy: Trois Chanson de Charles d'Orleans
Olivier Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium
Francis Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël
Maurice Ravel: Trois Chansons
Pierre Passereau: Si vous la baisez & Il est bel et bon
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Fri, Jul 9, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, Jul 10, 2010, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Xian Zhang, Conductor
Program
Chen-Yi: Ge Xu (Antiphony)
Sergei Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges: Symphonic Suite
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
The Magic Toy Shop
Fri, Jul 16, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Julian Kuerti, Conductor
Program
Ottorino Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque
Johannes Brahms: Haydn Variations
Benjamin Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
A Child of Our Time
Fri, Jul 23, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, Jul 24, 2010, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Christopher Bell, Conductor
Jonita Lattimore, Soprano
Anita Krause, Mezzo Soprano
Garrett Sorenson, Tenor
John Relyea, Bass
Program
Sir Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
The Fairy's Kiss
Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, Conductor
Markus Groh, Piano
Program
Igor Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, A major
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Cappriccio Italien
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff Returns
Wed, Aug 4, 2010, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
Program
John Adams: Lollapalooza
Antonín Dvořák: Violin Concerto
Dimitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
Mozart and Rossini Finales with Ryan Opera Center
Fri, Aug 6, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, Aug 7, 2010, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Artists Of The Ryan Opera Center
Program
Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola, Finale Act 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, Finale
Gioachino Rossini: L’Italiana in Algieri, Finale Act 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Finale Act 2
Toumani Diabaté: Kora Music from West Africa
Wed, Aug 11, 2010, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Toumani Diabaté, Kora
Program
Mandé Variations
Dvořák Requiem
Fri, Aug 13, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Layla Claire, Soprano
Alexandra Petersamer, Mezzo Soprano
Brendan Tuohy, Tenor
Kyle Ketelsen, Bass
Program
Antonín Dvořák: Requiem
Mahler Symphony No. 2: Resurrection
Fri, Aug 20, 2010, 6:30-7:45pm
Sat, Aug 21, 2010, 7:30-8:45pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Karina Gauvin, Soprano
Allyson McHardy, Mezzo Soprano
Program
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection