The Grant Park Music Festival’s season — and WFMT’s series of 10 live broadcasts from the festival — begins with this mixed program. Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra in works of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Tchaikovsky, and violinist Benjamin Beilman performs Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1.
Opening Night: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2
Playlist
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Jubilation
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, Little Russian