Grant Park Music Festival
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The Grant Park Music Festival is a ten-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Chorus along
July 5, 2008
Jay Pritzker Pavilion Great Lawn on the August 14, 2009 final weekend Beethoven's 9th Symphony Festival performance
The Petrillo Music Shell hosted the Music Festival until 2004
Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser was performed at the first Music Festival on July 1, 1935.
Petrillo Music Shell
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The Petrillo Music Shell is an outdoor amphitheater in Grant Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It serves as host to many large annual music festivals
Grant Park Music Festival
…during the Great Depression. The tradition of symphonic Grant Park Music Festival concerts began in 1935. The Festival was previously held at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park, but moved to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in the Millennium Park section of Grant Park for its 70th season, in 2004. Concerts are occasionally…
Aerial view of venue (c.2010)
Petrillo Music Shell in front of the Chicago Skyline (Including CNA Center, Willis Tower and Legacy Tower)
Left-side view of the Music Shell.