🎶 Grant Park Music Festival 2025 Lineup Drops! 🎻

Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival just unveiled its 2025 summer program! 🌞 This season marks the debut of new music director Guerrero Giancarlo, the Costa Rican maestro formerly of Minnesota Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and Nashville Symphony. 🎩 All concerts are FREE on the Millennium Park lawn (tax-deductible premium seats available!). Here’s your cheat sheet to can’t-miss nights: 1️⃣ June 18: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto & Bernstein’s On the Waterfront 🎻 Giancarlo’s inaugural concert features concertmaster Jeremy Black (Pittsburgh Symphony) tackling Mendelssohn’s lyrical showpiece. 2️⃣ June 20–21: Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (Titan) 🔥 After a Latin-flavored opener, Giancarlo unleashes Mahler’s epic journey from darkness to triumph. 🌋 3️⃣ June 27–28: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 😱 Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde prelude sets the stage for Shosty’s brooding masterpiece. That chaotic 2nd movement and DSCH motif will haunt you! 👻 4️⃣ July 2–3: Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy & Beethoven’s Pastoral 🌾 Finnish legend Osmo Vänskä (Minnesota Orchestra laureate) guests for Beethoven’s bucolic symphony. 🦋 5️⃣ July 11–12: Bruckner’s Psalm 150 & Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 🎶 Rare vocal fireworks from Bruckner, paired with Brahms’ sunny Second Symphony. ☀️ 6️⃣ July 16: Die Fledermaus Overture & Elgar’s Enigma Variations 🕺 Strauss’s waltz-fueled opener leads to Elgar’s mysterious Enigma – a crowd-pleaser! 🤫 7️⃣ July 18–19: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto & Prokofiev 5 🔥 Violinist Augustin Hadelich slays Tchaikovsky, while Prokofiev’s war-torn Fifth Symphony packs a punch. 🥊 8️⃣ Aug 13: Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 & Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony 🎹 Saint-Saëns’ organ-powered finale will shake Millennium Park to its core! 🏟️ 9️⃣ Aug 15–16: Carmina Burana 🎭 Giancarlo tackles Orff’s thunderous O Fortuna – prepare for goosebumps! 😱 #ClassicalMusic #ChicagoSummer #SymphonyAtThePark #Mahler #Tchaikovsky 🎻