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The Grand Tour

September 16, 2020, 8:00 pm

The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice by Canaletto, ca. 1730

From 2019: WFMT legend Carl Grapentine joins Music of the Baroque and guest conductor Harry Bicket for “a lively musical reenactment of the grand European tour of young nobles and aristocrats, from London and Versailles to Venice and Munich.”

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Meet the Host

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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The Grand Tour