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Gabriela Lara | Grant Park Music Festival

Name: Gabriela Lara | Grant Park Music Festival
Start: 2026-08-01T19:30:00
Location: Harris Theater for Music and Dance

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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.

Program

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Violin Concerto

Composer

George Gershwin - An American in Paris

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Duke Ellington - Three Black Kings

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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson - Sinfonietta No. 1

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Participants

Kedrick Armstrong

Conductor