CHICAGO (CBS) — The Grant Park Music Pageant might be again this yr, that includes 20 live shows on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park starting July 2.
The occasions gained’t be fairly what we have been used to earlier than the coronavirus pandemic. The competition will function beneath strict security protocols – together with a compulsory masks requirement, social distancing, and reserved seating for all concertgoers who will collect in pods on the Nice Garden to accommodate small teams.
The eight-week season might be held from July 2 by means of Aug. 21 on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, with different occasions across the metropolis. Performing Director and Principal Conductor Carlos Kalmar will lead the Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain.
The live shows might be held every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. They are going to be beneath an hour and a half in size and might be introduced with out intermission.
As a result of capability restrictions, reservations might be required for each the seating bowl and the Nice Garden on the pavilion. Free passes for the Independence Day Salute on July 2 and three might be accessible starting 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 30, whereas free passes for the opposite live shows within the collection might be accessible at 10 a.m. the Monday earlier than the occasion.
Passes could be obtained by going to gpmf.org or calling (312) 742-7647. They are going to be contactless and can contain a bar code that may be printed at dwelling or displayed on a smartphone.
If you wish to pay attention from dwelling, the live shows might be broadcast on 98.7 WFMT radio, and thru its web site at wfmt.com/pay attention.
The total schedule is beneath, as shared verbatim from the Grant Park Music Pageant:
INDEPENDENCE DAY SALUTE
Friday, July 2 and Saturday, July 3, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar and Christopher Bell, conductors
John Williams – Summon the Heroes
Scott Joplin– Overture to Treemonisha
Arr. Robert Lowden – Armed Forces Salute
Florence Worth – Dances within the Canebrakes
Leonard Bernstein – Alternatives from West Facet Story
George Walker – Lyric for Strings
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky –1812 Overture
John Philip Sousa – Stars and Stripes Ceaselessly
WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE
Wednesday, July 7, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Joyce Yang, piano
Julia Perry – Brief Piece for Orchestra
Georges Bizet – Suite from L’Arlésienne
Edvard Grieg – Piano Concerto
Gioachino Rossini – Overture to William Inform
BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 3
Friday, July 9 and Saturday, July 10, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Christopher Bell, refrain director
Antonio Vivaldi – Gloria
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 3
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 1
Wednesday, July 14, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Christopher Bell, refrain director
Anna Clyne – Sound and Fury
Franz Joseph Haydn – Nicolai Mass
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
SIBELIUS SYMPHONY NO. 5
Friday, July 16 and Saturday, July 17, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Masumi Per Rostad, viola
Leonard Bernstein – Three Dance Episodes from On the City
Jessie Montgomery – L.E.S. Characters (World Premiere)
Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5
BRUCKNER E MINOR MASS
Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Christopher Bell, refrain director
Lili Boulanger – Psalm 24
Jonathan Dove – The Passing of the 12 months
Anton Bruckner – Mass No. 2
DVOŘÁOk NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Eun Solar Kim, conductor | Natasha Paremski, piano
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
Wednesday, July 28, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Anthony Trionfo, flute
Claude Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Saverio Mercadante – Flute Concerto in E Minor
Camille Saint-Saëns – Symphony No. 2
FROM IRELAND WITH LOVE
Wednesday, August 4, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Refrain
Christopher Bell, conductor
Christopher Bell and the Grant Park Refrain salute Chicago’s vibrant Irish group with an a cappella choral program from the Emerald Isle.
SIBELIUS VIOLIN CONCERTO
Friday, August 6 and Saturday, August 7, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Augustin Hadelich, violin
Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams
FAMILY NIGHT: CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS
Wednesday, August 11, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Norman Huynh, conductor
Ashley Kim, piano
Colin Music, piano
Jacques Offenbach – Overture to Orpheus within the Underworld
Camille Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals
Edvard Grieg – Suite from Peer Gynt
CLASSIC BROADWAY
Friday, August 13 and Saturday, August 14, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Mamie Parris, Madison Claire Parks, Bronson Norris Murphy, vocals
Stars from Broadway be part of the orchestra in a night that revisits traditional songs we all know and love together with hits from a few of at this time’s most fun reveals.
SCHUBERT MASS IN G MAJOR
Wednesday, August 18, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Christopher Bell, refrain director
Felix Mendelssohn – Sinfonia No. 8
Franz Schubert – Mass in G Main
Benjamin Britten – Rejoice within the Lamb
MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 3
Friday, August 20 and Saturday, August 21, 6:30 p.m.
Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain
Carlos Kalmar, conductor | Christopher Bell, refrain director
Vadim Gluzman, violin
Gabriela Lena Frank – Elegía Andina
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3
George Frideric Handel – Dettingen Te Deum
Along with the Millennium Park occasions, the Grant Park Music Pageant can even current “Night time Out within the Park” initiatives. The live shows will characteristic the competition’s “Venture Inclusion” string fellows and can have a good time the music of BIPOC and girls composers.
These live shows will happen at Harrison Park, 1824 S. Wooden St. (July 15), Chicago Girls’s Park, 1801 S. Indiana Ave. (July 22), Indian Boundary Park, 2500 W. Lunt Ave. (July 29), Eleanor Boathouse, 2828 S. Eleanor St. (Aug. 5), Nichols Park, 1355 E. 53rd St. (Aug. 12), and Lake Shore Park, 808 N. Lake Shore Dr. (Aug. 19). All will start at 6:30 p.m.
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