Independence Day Salute at Grant Park Music Festival

The Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park hosts the Independence Day Salute within the Grant Park Music Festival. The performance by Grant Park Orchestra features conductor Christopher Bell vocalist Katelyn Lee and trumpet David Gordon. Two music sessions full of patriotic tunes occur from 4:30 to 6 pm and from 6:30 to 8 pm.

It's everyone's favorite old-timey holiday celebration: the Festival's annual salute to America. With Christopher Bell decked in red, white, and blue, the Grant Park Orchestra presents Bernstein, John Williams, John Philip Sousa, and the ever-popular Armed Forces Salute.

PROGRAM

John Williams: Liberty Fanfare

John Kander and Fred Ebb/arr. Ted Ricketts: Chicago

Frederick Loewe: I Could Have Danced All Night

Leonard Bernstein: Somewhere from West Side Story 

Arr. Jeff Tyzik: American Celebration (with audience singalong)

Florence Price: Nimble Feet from Dances in the Canebrakes

Jean-Baptiste Arban/Nakariakov: Carnival of Venice 

Leroy Anderson: The Waltzing Cat

Arr. Robert Wendel: From Sea to Shining Sea

Arr. Robert Lowden: Armed Forces Salute 

Arr. Carmen Dragon: America the Beautiful

John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever

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