Review: Grant Park Music Festival Opens with Latin Dances and a Multitasking Conductor

Review: Grant Park Music Festival opens with Latin dances and a multitasking conductor

Depending where you are, introducing oneself as American in Spanish — soy Americano — might set you up for some playful ribbing. To many, the descriptor is understood to refer to the Americas broadly, not the United States. On Wednesday, a very Americano opening night of the Grant Park Music Festival, led by guest conductor Andrew Litton, took that wide angle. Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Three Latin American Dances” references indigenous American and…

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