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Classic Chicago Grant Park Music Festival 2022
The Grant Park Music Festival 2022 season, is slated to run from June 15 to Aug. 20.
Heralding the Festival’s return to a 10-week season with full chorus and orchestra, as well as a high-water mark for its commitment to new works with plans to present six world-premiere works this summer, the most of any season in recent memory.
TheGrant Park Music Festival has been a Chicago tradition for almost 90 years. Held at Millennium Park, the festival is the nation’s only free, summer-long outdoor classical music series.
The Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus offer a thrilling lineup of music with a mix of contemporary compositions and classical favorites such as Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
Plus there will be plenty of family fun with the Independence Day Salute, Lights on Broadway, and Cirque Goes to Hollywood featuring live aerialists soaring above the stage.
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Mozart Symphony No. 35 (June 15)
Mendelssohn Reformation Symphony (June 17-18)
Schubert Unfinished Symphony (June 22)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 (June 24-25)
Britten Spring Symphony (June 29 and July 1)
Independence Day Salute (July 2)
Cirque Goes to Hollywood (July 6 including Troupe Vertigo)
Lights on Broadway (July 8-9)
Haydn Drumroll Symphony (July 13)
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (July 15-16)
Dvořák Symphony No. 8 (July 20)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 (July 22-23)
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings (July 25 at South Shore Cultural Center and July 28 at Columbus Park Refectory)
A Gospel Jubilee (July 27)
Mahler Symphony No. 9 (July 29-30 at Harris Theater)
A Mariachi Fiesta (Aug. 3)
60th Anniversary Choral Spectacular (Aug. 4)
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (Aug. 5-6)
Franck Symphony in D Minor (Aug. 10)
Tetzlaff Plays Shostakovich (Aug. 12-13)
Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty (Aug. 17)
Haydn Creation (Aug. 19-20)
The pairing of two Chicago Classics, the Grant Park Music Festival 2022 concerts and Adeline’s Sea Moose skyline cruises is a perfect match.
The Grant Park Music Festival concerts along with the Millennium Park Summer Music Series performances make a perfect pairing for pre and post-show skyline cruises aboard our Adeline’s Sea Moose, conveniently located within 2 miles from both venues. Learn more