Tag: Grant Park Orchestra
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Though Giancarlo Guerrero is barely into his tenure as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Orchestra, he has already signaled how he intends to shape this institution. The 2026 season has leaned into American music, a nod to both the country’s 250th anniversary and the festival’s Depression-era mission of accessibility and civic…
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Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Grant Park Orchestra in two performances of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, paired with Mozart’s Requiem in a discerning program. Together, these two monumental pieces create a dialogue about mortality and loss. Though separated by two centuries, both works wrestle with the theme of untimely death: Corigliano’s symphony in its raw…
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For the nation’s 250th anniversary, Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra has spent its summer festival surveying the American classical music tradition. The ensemble’s music directors have long possessed an appetite for discovery, unearthing obscure or overlooked corners of the repertoire. But the American works that have graced the Pritzker Pavilion in recent weeks suggest that this…