Name: Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Start: 2026-08-15T19:30:00
Location: Millennium Park

Giancarlo Guerrero

Karen Slack

Imara Miles

Jongwon Han

John Matthew Meyers

Christopher Bell

Grant Park Music Festival

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Dvořák’s New World Symphony, a Czech composer’s interpretation of the American folk songs and spirituals he had come to admire while living in the United States. Two works by prominent American minimalist composers open the program—John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.

Dvořák New World Symphony

Millennium Park

Giancarlo Guerrero brings the 2026 season to an epic close with none other than Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, a musical affirmation of humanity on a grand scale. To conclude our season-long celebration of American music, the program begins with Julia Wolfe’s raucous Liberty Bell and Michael Daugherty’s monumental Mount Rushmore.

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Liberty Bell Overture

Symphony No. 9

Mount Rushmore