Red, White & Win: Celebrate America’s 250th at Wind Creek Chicago Southland
Celebrate America’s 250th birthday in unforgettable fashion at Wind Creek Chicago Southland during its “Light It Up 250” Fourth of July celebration on July 4.…
National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen
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Chicago Greeter celebrates CHI250
The Chicago Greeter program will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with FREE walks on July 4th at 11:30am,…
NewberryFest: 250 Years of the United States
Join the Newberry Library for our summer NewberryFest, designed to help both new and returning visitors of all ages learn more about the library. This…
Get Lit: The Great American Heist at the American Writers Museum
We’re celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence… with a mystery to solve! Join your fellow investigators for a mystery 250 years in the…
America’s Blues Birthday Party
America’s Blues Birthday Party is an official America 250 celebration and a FREE, two-day outdoor music festival honoring America’s blues heritage across multiple eras, styles,…
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Grant Park Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, the composer’s poignant final symphony. Gabriela Lena Frank’s harrowing Conquest Requiem and Charles Ives’s eclectic Variations…
Haydn Military Symphony
Percussive bombast suggests an advancing army in Haydn’s Military Symphony No. 100 in this thrilling program conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. After Julia Perry’s energetic Short Piece, young cello…
Copland Symphony No. 3
Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3, a masterful synthesis of the composer’s expansive American musical style. Piano virtuoso Stewart Goodyear returns to the…
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Conductor Laureate Carlos Kalmar returns to the Festival with the technically brilliant pianist Olga Kern for Rachmaninov’s highly virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3. The program…
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Conductor Laureate Carlos Kalmar returns for Sibelius’s majestic Symphony No. 2, an emblem of Finnish nationalism written at a time of cultural and linguistic suppression.…
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Former Grant Park Music Festival Principal Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to conduct Tchaikovsky’s fatalistic Symphony No. 5. Violinist Yevgeny Kutik makes his Festival debut in…
Ravel Piano Concerto
Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson makes her Festival debut with William Grant Still’s celebratory Festive Overture, followed by Ravel’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto featuring star pianist Michelle Cann.…
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