Concert

Shostakovich Symphony No. 10

Sat, Jun 28 · 7:30 pm

Harris Theater

2h 15m

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Giancarlo Guerrero leads a performance of Shostakovich's powerful Symphony No. 10. The program also features Brio by acclaimed Chicago composer Augusta Read Thomas, and the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor

Program

Augusta Read Thomas Brio

Richard Wagner Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10

Program Notes

Grant Park Orchestra

Grant Park Orchestra

Orchestra

Grant Park Orchestra

Orchestra

The Grant Park Orchestra was formed in 1944 when the Chicago Park District assembled a single resident orchestra under the direction of Principal Conductor Nikolai Malko to perform at the Grant …
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Giancarlo Guerrero

Giancarlo Guerrero

Conductor

Giancarlo Guerrero

Conductor

Six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Giancarlo Guerrero named artistic leader of Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival.
The internationally renowned conductor and longtime music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and music director …
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Augusta Read Thomas

Augusta Read Thomas

Composer

Augusta Read Thomas

Composer

The music of Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964 in New York) is nuanced, majestic, elegant, capricious, lyrical, and colorful — "it is boldly considered music that celebrates the sound of the …
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Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Composer

Richard Wagner

Composer

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of …
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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

Composer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Composer

(September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975) Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian (Soviet) composer and pianist. He is considered one of the heavyweights of 20th-century music (he even appeared on the …
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