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Harris Theater for Music and Dance classical concerts

Millennium Park · Chicago

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Harris Theater for Music and Dance is Millennium Park's underground proscenium theater for chamber orchestras, vocal music, dance, touring ensembles, and resident arts partners.

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Gershwin An American in Paris

Friday, July 31 at 6:30 PM · Ticketed

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Planning a visit to Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Choose the Harris for an ensemble, vocal, or dance program in a modern reserved-seat theater beneath Millennium Park. Confirm the presenter, program, seating level, run time, accessibility arrangements, and ticket terms on the event page, then review current Randolph Street access, parking, transit, security, concessions, and late-seating guidance before arrival.

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  • Restaurant

    Acanto ↗

    A reservation-oriented Italian restaurant on South Michigan Avenue for a full pre-concert meal; match the reservation and service pace to curtain time.

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    The Gage ↗

    A Michigan Avenue gastropub for a more casual meal before a Loop performance; reserve when useful and allow time for the correct theater entrance.

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    Goddess and the Baker ↗

    A downtown café option for coffee, sandwiches, or a faster stop before the performance; confirm the most useful location and current counter hours.

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    Art Institute of Chicago ↗

    Pair an earlier museum visit on Michigan Avenue with the performance, checking timed admission, exhibitions, gallery hours, and closing time first.

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    Chicago Cultural Center ↗

    Visit the city-run landmark and its exhibitions before an evening event, confirming current building hours, entrances, programming, and closures.

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Date: Fri, Jul 31, 11:30 PM

Format: OrchestraTicketed
Venue: Harris Theater for Music and Dance • Neighborhood: Chicago metro • • Details

Making his Festival debut, Kedrick Armstrong conducts the Grant Park Orchestra in Gershwin’s jaunty An American In Paris . Experience the propulsive energy of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1 and Duke Ellington’s The Three Black Kings alongside Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lyrical Violin Concerto with soloist Gabriela Lara, an alumna of the Festival’s String Fellowship program. Featuring Grant Park Orchestra Kedrick Armstrong, Conductor Gabriele Lara, Violin Program Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Sinfonietta No. 1 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto Duke Ellington/arr. Luther Henderson The Three Black Kings George Gershwin/rev. Frank Campbell-Watson An American in Paris

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Date: Sun, Aug 2, 12:30 AM

Format: OrchestraTicketed
Venue: Harris Theater for Music and Dance • Neighborhood: Chicago metro • • Details

Making his Festival debut, Kedrick Armstrong conducts the Grant Park Orchestra in Gershwin’s jaunty An American In Paris . Experience the propulsive energy of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1 and Duke Ellington’s The Three Black Kings alongside Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lyrical Violin Concerto with soloist Gabriela Lara, an alumna of the Festival’s String Fellowship program. Featuring Grant Park Orchestra Kedrick Armstrong, Conductor Gabriele Lara, Violin Program Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Sinfonietta No. 1 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto Duke Ellington/arr. Luther Henderson The Three Black Kings George Gershwin/rev. Frank Campbell-Watson An American in Paris

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Date: Sun, Sep 13, 12:00 AM

Format: OrchestraTicketed
Venue: Harris Theater for Music and Dance • Neighborhood: Chicago metro • • Details

Performance Run Time: 2 hours and 10 minutes, including intermission. Russian Easter Overture by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov Lincoln Portrait by Aaron Copland Concerto Overture No. 2 by Florence Price Symphonic Dances by Sergie Rachmaninoff Music is the world’s universal medicine. The World Doctors Orchestra unites doctor-musicians from across the globe for a powerful, one-night-only benefit concert honoring the healing force of music, the mission of global healthcare, and the impact of charitable giving. “With malice toward none: with charity for all…” — Abraham Lincoln

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Date: Thu, Oct 15, 12:00 AM

Format: OrchestraTicketed
Venue: Harris Theater for Music and Dance • Neighborhood: Chicago metro • • Details

Performance Run Time: Approximately 2 hours, including intermission. Swan Lake: Symphony of Lights is the landmark new production of the upcoming season. Tchaikovsky’s iconic score opens the door to an entirely reimagined world: vivid light design, illuminated costumes, and world-class dancers from around the globe transform the classic ballet into a mesmerizing visual experience. This is more than a performance — it’s an immersion into a story of love and magic, told through light, movement, and music. Each act unfolds like a living art installation, where timeless tradition meets bold contemporary design. Discover Swan Lake in a whole new light — a legend reborn with breathtaking imagery and emotional power.

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Date: Wed, Oct 28, 12:30 AM

Format: ChamberTicketed
Venue: Harris Theater for Music and Dance • Neighborhood: Chicago metro • • Details

Performance Run Time: Approximately 1 hours and 50 minutes, including intermission. The piano trio has long offered composers a direct and personal means of expression, and this program brings together three works that reveal the form from different perspectives. Beethoven ’s Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 1, No. 1, shows a young composer already expanding the scope of the piano trio, giving each instrument a distinct role and shaping music that moves beyond convention. Czech composer Bedřich Smetana wrote his G-minor Piano Trio during a period of profound personal loss, and its shifting moods give the work a deeply human intensity. Fellow Czech composer Antonín Dvořák ’s “Dumky” Trio closes the program. The work stands apart in the chamber music repertoire as both his farewell to his homeland before departing for America and a composition of entirely unique design. The title refers to the dumka, a Slavic folk form marked by sudden contrasts between melancholy reflection and exuberant energy. Dvořák unfolds the work as a sequence of these contrasting episodes, giving the music a sense of freedom and immediacy that brings the program to a compelling close. Program: Beethoven | Trio in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 1, No. 1 (1793) Smetana | Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 15 (1855, rev. 1857) Dvořák | Trio in E minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 90, “Dumky” (1890–91) Performing Artists: Wu Han, piano Chad Hoopes, violin David Finckel, cello

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