Grant Park Music Festival | Independence Day Salute
Fri, Jul 04
|Millennium Park | Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Christopher Bell conducts the Grant Park Orchestra in this annual Chicago tradition.
Time & Location
Jul 04, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Millennium Park | Jay Pritzker Pavilion, 201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA
About The Event
FEATURING
Grant Park Orchestra
Christopher Bell, conductor
Josh Jones, marimba
Imara Miles, mezzo-soprano
PROGRAM
Irving Berlin/Orchd. Sid Ramin – Berlin Patriotic Overture
Arr. Charles Sayre – Broadway Showstoppers
George Gershwin/Arr. Bill Holcombe – Someone to Watch Over Me
Claude-Michel Schönberg/Arr. Bob Krogstad – I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables
Arr. Robert Wendel – A George M. Cohan Overture (with audience singalong)
Duke Ellington/Arr. Calvin Custer – Duke Ellington!
Traditional/Arr. Robert Hanson – Yankee Doodle Fantasy
Peter Boyer – Rolling River
Arr. Robert Wendel – From Sea to Shining Sea
Arr. Robert Lowden – Armed Forces Salute
Irving Berlin/Arr. Bill Holcombe – God Bless America
Ward, Samuel/Arr. John Morris Russel and Tim Berens – America the Beautiful
John Philip Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever
DESCRIPTION
Christopher Bell conducts the Grant Park Orchestra in this annual Chicago tradition. The family-friendly celebration includes patriotic favorites, Broadway showstoppers, and Yankee Doodle Fantasy, a musical barn-burner featuring the Festival’s own principal percussionist Josh Jones.
OPEN REHEARSAL
Thursday, July 3, 11:00am - 1:30pm
Organizer: Grant Park Music Festival