Wednesdays at 6:30 pm
The Grant Park Music Festival is back, and so are WFMT’s live broadcasts!
WFMT is bringing you the very best that the Grant Park Music Festival has to offer this summer, giving you a front-row ticket to the Chicago summertime institution. With live broadcasts featuring scintillating solo performances, rousing choral opuses, and beloved orchestral landmarks, WFMT is your ticket to a whole summer’s worth of great music.
There are no upcoming broadcasts at the moment.
Bruckner Symphony No. 4
August 2, 2024
Plus Sibelius' hauntingly beautiful Swan of Tuonela and the suite from Janáček's piquant opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
July 24, 2024
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is a thriller and a longtime audience favorite.
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
July 17, 2024
It's an evening of tributes, with brilliant composers borrowing tunes by other brilliant composers to cast a spell of musical delights.
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
July 10, 2024
Written under threat by the tyrant Joseph Stalin, the Fifth Symphony is as satisfying as it is subversive. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts.
Independence Day Salute
July 4, 2024
With Christopher Bell decked in red, white, and blue, the Grant Park Orchestra presents Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, John Philip Sousa, and the ever-popular Armed Forces Salute in a glorious summer tradition.
Haydn London Symphony
June 26, 2024
Plus the suite from Richard Strauss's hilarious Der Rosenkavalier and a world-premiere by Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad.
Songs of Freedom
June 19, 2024
Music and the struggle for freedom go hand in hand. The program pairs Beethoven overtures with two works championing freedom and social justice in our own country.
Opening Night: Dvořák Cello Concerto
June 12, 2024
Alban Gerhardt plays Dvořák's deeply moving Cello Concerto, and we hear works by Britten and Clyne.
Season Finale: Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
August 18, 2023
Closing out the 2023 Grant Park Music Festival season with music by Modest Mussorgsky, Felix Mendelssohn, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Hough Plays Mendelssohn
August 16, 2023
Respected pianist Stephen Hough performs Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano Concerto.
Hadelich Plays Prokofiev
August 11, 2023
Star violinist Augustin Hadelich makes a return to the festival to play Prokofiev's 2nd Violin Concerto.
Valentina Peleggi
August 9, 2023, 8:00 pm
In a performance from June 29, 2023, Valentina Peleggi conducts music by Valerie Coleman, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Stewart Goodyear appears.
The Pines of Rome
August 4, 2023
The exciting and innovative Eric Jacobsen makes his Grant Park Music Festival debut.
Pictures at an Exhibition
July 19, 2023
Ken-David Masur — music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago — takes the Millennium Park stage.
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1
July 12, 2023
Pianist Joyce Yang, a 2023 artist-in-residence for the festival, joins conductor Gemma New to perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
An American Salute: Rhapsody in Blue
July 5, 2023
Michelle Cann returns to Pritzker Pavilion as soloist in George Gershwin’s dazzling Rhapsody in Blue.
Beethoven Violin Concerto
June 28, 2023
Fast-rising violinist Stefan Jackiw joins guest conductor Jordan de Souza to perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, in a program that also features music by Leonard Bernstein and William Grant Still.