This week, the festival notches two major anniversaries: its 90th season, and its 25th and final year led by artistic director and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar.
Alban Gerhardt performs Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor with the Grant Park Orchestra at Pritzker Pavilion on June 12, 2024, in Chicago. This week, the Grant Park Music Festival notches two major anniversaries: its 90th season, and its 25th and final year led by artistic director and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar.
It’s great fun, but a brutal cold open for a concert, especially the season’s very first. Chaos reigned in the strings, and the cheery jig which comes later — “Juice of Barley,” an old English drinking song — settled uneasily. Whatever its moniker, the new insertions read like the handiwork of a summer intern who’s lived in the city for six days. Some choice excerpts: violas are the “deep dish pizza” to the violins’ tavern-style, the percussion section gets compared to the Bucket Boys, and harpists glissando because they’re flicking Italian beef jus off their fingers.
Alban Gerhardt performs Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B Minor with the Grant Park Orchestra at Pritzker Pavilion on June 12, 2024, in Chicago. After Elgar’s nearly hour-long behemoth, Tetzlaff tossed in the Andante from Bach’s solo Sonata No. 2, filigree and sweetly wistful — just ’cause he could. Apparently, Gerhardt wasn’t the only German gentleman headlining this week: after his performance, Tetzlaff joined his preteen child in the audience for the even-rarer rarity on the concert’s second half.
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