The Grant Park Music Festival’s 2021 season premiere is also one of its hallmark programs: the perennial Independence Day Salute, which samples celebratory and quintessentially American music. This year, the concert will be conducted by Christopher Bell and Carlos Kalmar and will feature music by Tchaikovsky, Price, Walker, and Sousa.
Independence Day Salute
Christopher Bell conducting the Independence Day Salute
Playlist
John Williams: Summon the Heroes
Joplin: Overture to Treemonisha
Arr. Robert Lowden: Armed Forces Salute
Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
Bernstein/Mason: Selections from West Side Story
Alford: Colonel Bogey March
Steve Smith, conductor
Walker: Lyric for Strings
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (no cuts)
Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever