The Grant Park Music Festival’s Independence Day concert met a watery fate, but the show went on for the lucky few seated in the choir loft onstage.
, took the stage 30 minutes in for Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” But Dario Brignoli had scarcely crowed out the piece’s iconic clarinet call when heavy rain pelted into Jay Pritzker Pavilion, forcing the “Rhapsody” to wrap up quickly. Even musicians tucked onstage got briefly drenched, with the festival’s Steinway concert grand taking a special soaking.
Conductor Christopher Bell takes the stage dressed in patriotic attire to lead the Grant Park Orchestra in a performance at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on July 5, 2023, in Chicago. Now, for the dirty little secret most of Wednesday’s sopping attendees didn’t know: After the delay, the show did go on for the lucky few already seated in the choir loft onstage. The evening’s unplayed pieces were cut — catch you next year, “Stars and Stripes Forever” — but the festival closed the glass Pavilion windshield so Cann could at least see her “Rhapsody in Blue” through, ensconced from the murky blue tumult outside.
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