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Grant Park Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, Illinois
Principal conductorCarlos Kalmar
WebsiteOfficial website

The Grant Park Symphony Orchestra or simply the Grant Park Orchestra is a publicly sponsored

symphony orchestra that provides free performances in the Grant Park Music Festival during the summer months in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Its sister organization is the Grant Park Chorus; the orchestra and chorus
hold both joint appearances and separate performances.

History

The orchestra was founded in 1944 and the chorus in 1962.

Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne wanted to put an end to the large Independence Day Eve concert in order to reduce costs and differentiate herself from her predecessors, but was convinced not to by Grant Park Music Festival concert manager Steven Ovitsky.[6] One year, Byrne celebrated the event with Muhammad Ali at her side.[7]

In 2000, the Festival reached an agreement with Cedille Records to record the Grant Park Orchestra. It produced six CDs during the decade:[8]

  • American Works for Organ and Orchestra (with organist David Schrader), released June 18, 2002[9]
  • Robert Kurka: Symphony No. 2; Julius Caesar; Music for Orchestra; Serenade for Small Orchestra (
    Grammy Award-nominated), released January 1, 2004[10]
  • Portraits (with violinist Jennifer Koh), released May 30, 2006[11]
  • American Orchestral Works, released June 27, 2006[12]
  • Royal Mezzo (with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore), released June 10, 2008[13]
  • Symphony in Waves: Music Of Aaron Jay Kernis, released August 12, 2008[14]

At the end of the Grant Park Music Festival season in August, the Orchestra and Carlos Kalmar presented Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls, which was written at the request of the New York Philharmonic to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks. Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for that particular work.[15]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-0-470-16537-9
    .
  2. ^ Macaluso, p. viii
  3. ^ Macaluso, p. 79
  4. ^ Macaluso, p. 144
  5. ^ Macaluso, p. 148
  6. ^ Macaluso, p. 150
  7. ^ Macaluso, p. 152
  8. ^ Macaluso, p. 204
  9. Amazon.com, Inc.
    Retrieved 2010-04-29.
  10. Amazon.com, Inc.
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  11. Amazon.com, Inc.
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  12. Amazon.com, Inc.
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  13. Amazon.com, Inc.
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  14. Amazon.com, Inc.
    Retrieved 2010-04-29.
  15. ^ Macaluso, p. 215

References

  • Macaluso, Tony; Julia S. Bachrach & Neal Samors (2009). Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront: A Celebration Of The Grant Park Music Festival. Chicago's Book Press.
    ISBN 978-0-9797892-6-7
    .

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