Change of Name!
Well, really only one letter. In the US a Youth Choir is more likely to be made up of singers between the ages of 11 and 14. In order to give the correct
impression of NYCoS and its abilities to audiences and promoters alike the touring choir
was renamed the National Collegiate Chorale of
Scotland, NCCoS!
The Grant Park Festival
The Grant Park Festival is America’s only remaining free, municipally funded, outdoor, classical music series. Since 2001, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Park District have co-presented the Grant Park Music Festival.
The Festival has its own fully professional orchestra and chorus, the Grant Park Orchestra, and its 60 voice chorus, and they present up to 30 concerts annually in a 10 week season from June to August.
In 2004 the Festival moved into its new home, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
Millennium Park
Grant Park is a huge public park in the French Style which has the shore of Lake Michigan as one border and the stunning skyline of Chicago as the other. At the North end of the park a former rail yard has been covered over to create Millennium Park which, with its 14,000 seater Gehry Pavilion, 1,500 seater Harris Theatre and a varied selection of sculptures, monuments and gardens is an extraordinary setting for a summer festival.
Gehry Shell
The Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park is a state-of-the-art music pavilion designed by internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry and features an unparalleled acoustic system created by the Talaske Group, Inc. of Oak Park, IL. The first permanent outdoor installation of its kind in the United States, the new sound system features digitally processed "virtual architecture" and an open-air acoustical canopy to create a state-of-the-art sonic experience. It is the most sophisticated outdoor sound system of its type in the world.
Schedule of Concerts (ALL ADMISSION FREE!)
Tour Dates: 9th-23rd August
2004
