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L.E.S. Characters at the Grant Park Festival

August 4 - 5, 2023
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Grant Park Orchestra
(312) 742-7647
patronservices@gpmf.org
https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/
venue:
Harris Theater
205 East Randolph
Chicago, IL
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Program

Antonín Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Jessie Montgomery: L.E.S. Characters
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome

Program Notes

Description

The Grant Park Orchestra returns to the Harris Theater to welcome guest conductor Eric Jacobsen for Respighi’s thrilling homage to the Eternal City—the volcanic tone poem Pines of Rome. The program includes Copland’s contemplative Quiet City and the Illinois premiere of a Festival co-commission—Jessie Montgomery’s tribute to the people of New York’s Lower East Side, a viola concerto featuring soloist Masumi per Rostad. The concert opens with Dvořák’s Carnival Overture.