The Grant Park Music Festival, the jewel in the crown of Chicago's celebrated Millennium Park, has announced a typically ambitious and varied two-month season of 31 free summer concerts.
March 29, 2007 (Press Release) --
The festival, now in its 73rd season, is a joint project of the Park District and the city's Cultural Affairs Department.
The always-admirable festival, whose popularity has skyrocketed since its 2004 move to the Frank Gehry-designed Pritzker Pavilion, will feature many international virtuoso guest artists, several major choral and vocal works and a celebration of Leonard Bernstein's theater music presented by Broadway hands Kevin Stites and Gary Griffin.
General and artistic director James W. Palermo is sticking with the successful festival musical leadership of principal conductor Carlos Kalmar and chorus director Christopher Bell.
One of the world's finest violinists, Christian Tetzlaff, returns Aug. 8 in Tchaikovsky's ever-popular concerto. International guest pianists include French-Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin on opening night, June 13, in Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, a concert that also kicks off a survey of the four less frequently played even-numbered Beethoven symphonies.
The festival's unofficial piano queen, Ukrainian-born Valentina Lisitsa, will play both Shostakovich piano concertos in indoor concerts at Orchestra Hall Aug. 4-5. Canadian Stewart Goodyear plays Gershwin's Concerto in F on July 13-14. Argentinean Ingrid Fliter, 2006 Gilmore Award Artist, makes her local orchestral debut Aug. 15 in Chopin's Second Concerto.
Major choral works include Mendelssohn's "Elijah" June 15-16, Durufle's "Requiem" July 6-7 and Poulenc's "Gloria" on July 25 and 27 with guest conductor Emmanuel Villaume. On Aug. 17-18, Vaughan Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem" is on a bill with Jonita Lattimore and Nathan Gunn in John Adams' "The Wound Dresser," rescheduled from last season.
International programs include a "Looking East" night with music of Oscar winner Tan Dun and Busoni's rarely heard "Turandot Suite" on June 20; "Musica Latina" with Uruguayan guitarist Eduardo Fernandez, June 22-23; Hungarian fiddler Roby Lakatos, July 11; the annual Venetian Night with the Gerardo Nunez Quintet and flamenco dancer Carmen Cortes, July 28.
In addition to its usual membership program, which provides guaranteed and reserved seats to all 31 concerts for festival supporters, a new rush series of eight concerts will be introduced for $125.
Source: http://yahoo.com.cn
POSTED BY ANDREW PATNER
The always-admirable festival, whose popularity has skyrocketed since its 2004 move to the Frank Gehry-designed Pritzker Pavilion, will feature many international virtuoso guest artists, several major choral and vocal works and a celebration of Leonard Bernstein's theater music presented by Broadway hands Kevin Stites and Gary Griffin.
General and artistic director James W. Palermo is sticking with the successful festival musical leadership of principal conductor Carlos Kalmar and chorus director Christopher Bell.
One of the world's finest violinists, Christian Tetzlaff, returns Aug. 8 in Tchaikovsky's ever-popular concerto. International guest pianists include French-Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin on opening night, June 13, in Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, a concert that also kicks off a survey of the four less frequently played even-numbered Beethoven symphonies.
The festival's unofficial piano queen, Ukrainian-born Valentina Lisitsa, will play both Shostakovich piano concertos in indoor concerts at Orchestra Hall Aug. 4-5. Canadian Stewart Goodyear plays Gershwin's Concerto in F on July 13-14. Argentinean Ingrid Fliter, 2006 Gilmore Award Artist, makes her local orchestral debut Aug. 15 in Chopin's Second Concerto.
Major choral works include Mendelssohn's "Elijah" June 15-16, Durufle's "Requiem" July 6-7 and Poulenc's "Gloria" on July 25 and 27 with guest conductor Emmanuel Villaume. On Aug. 17-18, Vaughan Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem" is on a bill with Jonita Lattimore and Nathan Gunn in John Adams' "The Wound Dresser," rescheduled from last season.
International programs include a "Looking East" night with music of Oscar winner Tan Dun and Busoni's rarely heard "Turandot Suite" on June 20; "Musica Latina" with Uruguayan guitarist Eduardo Fernandez, June 22-23; Hungarian fiddler Roby Lakatos, July 11; the annual Venetian Night with the Gerardo Nunez Quintet and flamenco dancer Carmen Cortes, July 28.
In addition to its usual membership program, which provides guaranteed and reserved seats to all 31 concerts for festival supporters, a new rush series of eight concerts will be introduced for $125.
Source: http://yahoo.com.cn
POSTED BY ANDREW PATNER
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