2021 Season
Independence Day Salute
Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 6:30-8PM & Sat Jul 3, 2021, 6:30-8PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, conductor
Program
John Williams: Summon the Heroes
Scott Joplin: Overture to Treemonisha
Arr. Robert Lowden: Armed Forces Salute
Florence Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
Leonard Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
William Tell Overture
Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Program
Julia Perry: Short Piece for Orchestra
Georges Bizet: Suite from L'Arlésienne
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Brahms Symphony No. 3
Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 6:30-8PM & Sat, Jul 10,2021, 6:30-8PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Susan Nelson, soprano
Sarah Ponder, mezzo-soprano
Corinne Wallace-Crane, mezzo-soprano
Program
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Katelyn Lee, soprano
Sarah Ponder, mezzo-soprano
Hoss Brock, tenor
Dan Richardson, bass-baritone
Wilbur Pauley, narrator
Program
Anna Clyne: Sound and Fury
Franz Joseph Haydn: Nicolai Mass
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Quartet in the Parks
Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 6:30-7:30pm
Harrison Park
Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 6:30-7:30pm
Chicago Women's Park
Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 6:30-7:30pm
Indian Boundary Park
Thu, Aug 5, 2021, 6:30-7:30pm
Eleanor Boathouse
Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 6:30-7:30pm
Nichols Park
Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 6:30-7:30pm
Lake Shore Park
Featuring
Allison Lovera, violin
Audrey Lee, violin
Edwardo Rios, viola
Cole Randolph, cello
Program
Tomeka Reid: Prospective Dwellers
Florence Price: String Quartet in A minor, Juba Dance
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Home
Zitella Icli: The Survivor
Leroy Anderson: Waltzing Cat
Jessie Montgomery: Voodoo Dolls
Sibelius Symphony No. 5
Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 6:30-8pm & Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 6:30-8PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Masumi Per Rostad, viola
Program
Leonard Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Margaret Brouwer: Viola Concerto
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Bruckner E Minor Mass
Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Program
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 24
Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year
Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E minor
Dvořák New World Symphony
Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 6:30-8PM & Sat, Jul 24, 2021 6:30-8PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Eun Sun Kim, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano
David Gordon, trumpet
Program
Texu Kim: Blow, Fly, Pop!!
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 6:30-8PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Anthony Trionfo, flute
Program
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Saverio Mercadante: Flute Concerto
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 2
Reflections on Carmen (Friday Live Stream)
Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 6:30-8PM & Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 6:30-8PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Program
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 8, Le soir
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
From Ireland with Love
Wed, Aug 4, 2021, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, conductor
Program
arr. Ēriks Ešenvalds: "O Danny Boy"
Charles Villiers Stanford: Three Motets
David Fennessy: chOirland
Sean Doherty: "I am the World"
Michael McGlynn: "Aisling"
arr. Mark Sirett: "Wild Rover"
arr. Leslie Hewlett: "Paddy McGinty’s Goat"
arr. Earlene Rentz: "To Work Upon the Railway"
arr. Joseph Martin: "The Last Rose of Summer"
arr. Teena Chinn: "Irish Eyes are Smiling"
arr. C. Courtney Lorenz: "Three Irish Folksongs"
arr. Desmond Earley: "The Parting Glass"
arr. Erik Jones: "I’ll Tell My Ma"
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Fri, Aug 6, 2021, 6:30-8pm & Sat, Aug 7, 2021, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Program
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams
Carnival of the Animals
Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Norman Huynh, conductor
Ashley Kim, piano
Colin Song, piano
Program
Jacques Offenbach: Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
Edvard Grieg: Suite from Peer Gynt
Classic Broadway
Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 6:30-8pm & Sat, Aug 14, 2021 6:30-8PM
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Mamie Parris, vocals
Madison Claire Parks, vocals
Bronson Norris Murphy, vocals
Doug LaBrecque, director
Program
Rodgers and Hammerstein: "Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific
Leonard Bernstein: "Maria" from West Side Story
Alan Menken: "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast
Claude-Michel Schönberg: "Why God, Why?" from Miss Saigon
Andrew Lloyd Webber: "Memory" from Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber: "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera
Stephen Schwartz: "Defying Gravity" from Wicked
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