Carlos Kalmar -- by Bruce Foster -- The Oregonian
Tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and via free streaming anywhere in the world at wfmt.com my guests will be Carlos Kalmar, principal conductor, and Leigh Levine, interim executive director, of Chicago's annual, free, municipally-supported Grant Park Music Festival.
Fresh off of a triumph as music director of the Oregon Symphony leading that ensemble's Carnegie Hall début last week, Carlos has just renewed his contract with Grant Park for five years (through 2016) and taken up the title and duties of artistic director as well as of today. Leigh continues her work while the ongoing search for a new executive director, who now will concentrate on non-artistic matters, continues.
The Festival starts this year on Wednesday evening June 15 with an all-French program conducted by Carlos Kalmar and continues for 10 weeks of 32 concerts at the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, with some indoor choral and other concerts (also free) at the Harris Theater, just behind the Pavilion.
The program will then be posted Tuesday at wfmt.com/criticalthinking for free podcast, download, streaming indefinitely.
See you on the radio!
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