Grant Park Music Fest Schedule - 2009

Grant Park Music Fest, which takes place every year at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park (except where noted), is the nation's only remaining FREE outdoor concert series and a definite highlight of Chicago summers.

Note: GPO = Grant Park Orchestra

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TCHAIKOVSKY ON OPENING NIGHT
Wednesday, June 10 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Stephen Hough, Piano


KEY/Arr. Toscanini Star Spangled Banner
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition


BERNSTEIN ON THE WATERFRONT
Friday, June 12 at 5:30 p.m. * Note start time
GPO and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; John Horton Murray, Tenor; Denis Sedov, Bass; Chicago Children’s Choir


KERNIS Too Hot Toccata
BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite
SHOSTAKOVICH Song of the Forests, op. 81

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
Saturday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
*Harris Theater for Music and Dance
GPO and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

KERNIS Too Hot Toccata
BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

ENIGMA VARIATIONS
Wednesday, June 17 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; James Ehnes, Violin

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on Greensleeves
WALTON Violin Concerto
ELGAR Enigma Variations, Op. 36

FROM 1909: BURNHAM’S PLAN AND RACHMANINOFF’S 3rd
Friday, June 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 20 at 7:30 p.m.
GPO and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; Jon Kimura Parker, Piano; Jonita Lattimore, Soprano; Bryan Griffin, Tenor

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30
TORKE Plans

MARIACHI FROM MEXICO
Wednesday, June 24 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

SOUNDS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Friday, June 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m.
*Harris Theater for Music and Dance
GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

MADE IN AMERICA
Tuesday, June 30 at 6:30 p.m. *Note day change
Thursday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m.
*Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director;

HOVHANESS A Rose Tree Blossoms
CORIGLIANO L’invitation au voyage
LAURIDSEN Nocturnes: Soneto de la Noche
COPLAND Four Motets
CRABTREE Five Romantic Miniatures (from the Simpsons)
BARBER Sure on this Shining Night
SAMETZ I Have Had Singing

GALA 75TH SEASON CONCERT
Wednesday, July 1 at 8:00 p.m. * Note start time
GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

WAGNER Tannhäuser: Arrival of the Guests at the Wartburg
THOMAS Mignon: Overture
ALFVEN Midsommarvaka, Op.19 (Midsummer Vigil; Swedish Rhapsody No. 1)
GLAZUNOV Ruses d’Amour Ballet Suite (Introduction, Valse and Grand Pas des Fiances)
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
POWELL Natchez-On-The-Hill, Three Virginia Country Dances
GERMAN Henry VIII: Three Dances (Morris Dance, Shepherd’s Dance and Torch Dance)
J. STRAUSS, JR. On the Beautiful Blue Danube Op. 314
MEACHAM American Patrol March

BRUCKNER’s 4th
Wednesday, July 8 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Hans Graf, Conductor

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4

PIRATES OF PENZANCE AND THE MIKADO
Friday, July 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m.
GPO and Chorus; Christopher Bell, Conductor

DANCES AND FAIRYTALES
Wednesday, July 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 18 at 7:30 p.m.
GPO; Gilbert Varga, Conductor

OFFENBACH Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture
FRANCK Le Chausseur Maudit
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
ROUSSEL Bacchus et Arianne Suite No.2

KHACHATURIAN’S SPARTACUS
Friday, July 17 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Kirill Karabits, Conductor; Karen Gomyo, Violin

SILVESTROV Serenade of Parting
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1, Opus 99
KHACHATURIAN Suite from Spartacus. 1. Introduction and Dance of Nymphs 2. Introduction, Adagio of Aegina and Harmodius (The Entrance of Harmodius- Adagio of Aegina and Harmodius)3. Variations of Aegina and Bacchanalia 4. Scene and Dance with Crotalums 5. Adagio Of Spartacus And Phrygia 6. Dance of the Gaditanian Maidens and Victory of Spartacus

LUNA NEGRA DANCE THEATER AND LUCIANA SOUZA
Wednesday, July 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Friday, July 24 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Luciana Souza, Vocals; Luna Negra Dance Theater, Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director

OPERA HITS ON VENETIAN NIGHT
Saturday, July 25 at 6:30 p.m. * Note start time
GPO; Juanjo Mena, Conductor; Nicole Cabell, Soprano; Russell Thomas, Tenor

SIBELIUS SYMPHONY NO. 1
Wednesday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Pietari Inkinen, Conductor

PÄRT Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra

SILBELIUS Symphony No. 1

THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS
Friday, July 31 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 1 at 7:30 p.m.
GPO and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; TBD Mezzo Soprano; Tenor; Bass

ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius

MENDELSSOHN & HAYDN
Wednesday, August 5 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Carlos Kalmar; Conductor; Ingrid Fliter, Piano


MENDELSSOHN Overture to Ruy Blas, Op. 95
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
HAYDN Symphony No. 103, E-flat major

MAHLER’S 9th
Friday, August 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 8 at 7:30 p.m.
*Harris Theater for Music and Dance GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

MAHLER Symphony No. 9

ITALIAN VERSIONS
Wednesday, August 12 at 6:30 p.m.
GPO; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

BERIO Ritirata notturna di Madrid (after Boccherini)
BRITTEN Matinées musicales, Opus 24 (after Rossini)
STRAUSS Aus Italien, Opus 16

BEETHOVEN’S 9th
Friday, August 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 15 at 7:30 p.m.
GPO and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Amber Wagner, Soprano; Kathryn Leemhuis, Mezzo Soprano; TBD Tenor; Jason Grant, Bass

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, op. 125