The Grant Park Orchestra welcomes the sensational young conductor Gemma New for Tchaikovsky's thumping Piano Concerto No. 1. The program includes American composer Samuel Barber's late-Romantic Symphony No. 1 and a piece inspired by the very skyline that lends so much majesty to the Festival's environs — Vivian Fung's Aqua, written after the skyscraper of the same name designed by Chicago architect Jeanne Gang.
Program
Vivian Fung, Aqua
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1
Samuel Barber, Symphony No. 1
Open rehearsals will be Tuesday, July 11th and Wednesday, July 12th
There will also be a pre-concert lecture Wednesday, July 12th from 5:30-6:00pm