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By Ben Mattison
01 Apr 2005
The 2005 Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago's free outdoor summer festival, will include the city premiere of Leonard Bernstein's A White House Cantata and visits from Christian Tetzlaff and Jennifer Larmore.
The two August performances of A White House Cantata, a concert version of Bernstein's musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, will feature baritone Nathan Gunn and soprano Rebecca Luker.
The festival opens on June 15 with a performance of Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream led by principal conductor Carlos Kalmar. It ends on August 20 with a gala performance featuring bass-baritone Samuel Ramey and mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer.
Other highlights include performances of Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony, Ravel's "choreographic symphony" Daphnis et Chloé, and an evening of bel canto arias, featuring Larmore.
The festival moved last July to the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a high-tech outdoor performance space with speakers suspended from a trellis over the audience.
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| The Grant Park Festival at the Pritzker Pavilion
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| photo by Brook Collins/Chicago Park District |
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