The Grant Park Music Festival

GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL

JUNE 12—AUGUST 17, 2013 IN MILLENNIUM PARK

2013 SEASON LINE-UP

Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Stefan Jackiw, violin

Norman          Drip

Mozart            Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish

Tchaikovsky   Symphony No. 4

Friday, June 14 at 6:30PM

Saturday, June 15 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Christopher Bell, chorus director

Barber                        Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance

Copland          Suite: Billy the Kid

Prokofiev        Alexander Nevsky

Wednesday, June 19 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Pink Martini

Works TBD

Friday, June 21 at 6:30PM

Saturday, June 22 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Xiaoduo Chen, soprano; Meng Meng, soprano; Wei-Yang Andy Lin, erhu; Yang Wei, pipa; Yang Yi, zheng

Chen               Iris dévoilée

Fauré              Pelléas and Mélisande: Suite

Ravel               La Valse

Wednesday, June 26 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Martin Frost, clarinet

Vaughan Williams     Symphony No. 5

Nielsen                      Clarinet Concerto

Martinu                      Thunderbolt P47

Friday, June 28 at 6:30PM

Saturday, June 29 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Christopher Bell, chorus director; Erin Wall, soprano; Jeremy Ovenden, tenor; Alan Held, bass; Chicago Children’s Choir, Josephine Lee, artistic director

Britten                        War Requiem

Wednesday July 3 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Christopher Bell, conductor, Janai Brugger, soprano

Works TBD

Friday July 5 at 6:30PM

Saturday July 6 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Eugene Tzigane, guest conductor; Alessio Bax, piano

Bolcom                        Ragomania, A Classic Festival Overture

Barber                                    Piano Concerto

Dvořák                        Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Wednesday, July 10 at 8:00PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Jeff Tyzik, guest conductor

Works TBD

Friday, July 12 at 8:00PM    

Saturday, July 13 at 8:00PM            

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, guest conductor; Mary Stolper, flute; Walter Haman, cello

Featuring works by Daniel Alomía Robles, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Ary Barroso and more.

Wednesday, July 17 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Christopher Bell, conductor; Rebecca Luker, soprano; Doug LaBrecque, tenor; William Michals, baritone

Featuring works from Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel and The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, along with favorites from Kern and Hammerstein and Rodgers and Hart.

Friday, July 19 at 6:30PM

Saturday, July 20 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Thierry Fischer, guest conductor

Berlioz            Overture: King Lear

Martin                        Concerto for Seven Winds

Saint-Saëns    Symphony No. 3, Organ Symphony

Wednesday, July 24 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Hannu Lintu, guest conductor; Kirill Gerstein, piano

Beethoven      Piano Concerto No. 1

Shostakovich  Symphony No. 5

Friday, July 26 at 6:30PM

Saturday, July 27 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Hannu Lintu, guest conductor; Karen Gomyo, violin

Sibelius           Pohjola’s Daughter

Glazunov        Symphony No. 4

Sibelius           Violin Concerto

Tuesday, July 30 at 7:00PM   NOTE LOCATION, DATE AND START TIME

Location:  South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Dr.

Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, chorus director

Works TBD

Wednesday, July 31 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor

Bruckner        Symphony No. 2

Thursday, August 1 at 7:00PM  NOTE LOCATION, DATE AND START TIME

Location:  Columbus Park Refectory, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd.

Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, chorus director

Works TBD

Friday, August 2 at 6:30PM    NOTE LOCATION

Saturday, August 3 at 7:30PM

Location:  Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor

Elgar               Nursery Suite

Janáček           The Fiddler’s Child

Carpenter      Adventures in a Perambulator

Wednesday, August 7 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; James Carter, saxophones

Piazzolla (arr. Castagna)     Milongón Festivo

Ginastera                                Pampeana No. 3

Sierra                                      Concerto for Saxophones

Villa-Lobos                             Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7

Friday, August 9 at 6:30PM

Saturday, August 10 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Christopher Bell, chorus director; artists from the Lyric Opera’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Messiaen                                Les offrandis oubliées

MacMillan                              Confessions of Isobel Gowdie

Schubert                                Mass in E Flat Major

Wednesday, August 14 at 6:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Valentina Lisitsa, piano

Shchedrin                              The Naughty Limericks

Borodin                                  Symphony No. 2

Rachmaninov                         Piano Concerto No. 2

Friday, August 16 at 6:30PM

Saturday, August 17 at 7:30PM

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Donald Nally, guest chorus director

Adams                                                Black Gondola

Adams                                                Harmonium

Stravinsky                              The Rite of Spring