Grant Park Music Festival
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| Grant Park Music Festival | |
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| Location(s) | Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL,  United States |
| Years active | 1931-present |
| Date(s) | Wed - Sun, June - August |
| Genre | classical music festival |
| Website | www.grantparkmusicfestival.com |
Grant Park Music Festival is an annual classical music concert series held in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is claimed to be the nation's only free, outdoor classical music series.[1] It is currently housed in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The 2004 season in which the festival moved to the Pritzker Pavilion was the 70th season for the festival.[2] Formerly, the Grant Park Music Festival was held at the Petrillo Bandshell in Grant Park.[3]
The Grant Park Music Festival has been a Chicago tradition since 1931 when Anton Cermak suggested free concerts to lift spirits of Chicagoans during the Great Depression.[4] The festival features the Grammy-Nominated Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus and is sponsored by the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Grant Park Orchestral Association.[1] The performance schedule includes ten consecutive weeks of performances on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from mid June to mid August.[5] Performances usually begin at 7:30 with band shell seats reserved for subscribers. Unclaimed seats are released to the public 15 minutes before each performance. The lawn seating is free and commonly adorned with blankets and families.
The principal conductor is Carlos Kalmar. Guests in the 2007 season included Marc-André Hamelin, Russell Braun, Erin Wall, Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus and many more performing the works of composers such as Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Leo Brouwer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Tan Dun, and Ferruccio Busoni.[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Grant Park Music Festival. City of Chicago. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park. Metormix Chicago. metromix.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Delacoma, Wynne. The Jay Pritzker Music Pavilion Sounds as Good as it Looks. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Tiebert, Laura, Frommer's Chicago with Kids (3rd edition), 2007, Wiley Publishing, Inc., ISBN 978-0470-12481-9, p.263.
- ^ a b Grant Park Music Festival 2007. grantparkmusicfestival.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
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