Folkstage is pre-empted this week so that we may bring you Christopher Bell conducting the Grant Park Orchestra in the Festival’s traditional Fourth of July concert which includes patriotic music, favorites by Copland and Gershwin, plus a performance of Carmen Dragon’s orchestral arrangement of “The Orange Blossom Special” live on WFMT with host Dave Schwan.
Grant Park Music Festival Independence Day Salute
The Orange Blossom Special on a postcard, c. 1939. Hear the folk song about the legendary train in a famed orchestral arrangement. (PHOTO: Tichnor Bros., Public Doman, Wikimedia)
