Beethoven Symphony No. 9

The Grant Park Music Festival is a 10-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois’ Millennium Park. Featuring the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, it is one of the only free outdoor classical-music concert series in the US.

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.