Grant Park Music Fest: 75 seasons of allegro al fresco

It's probably a phrase that we each first heard as small children and tried to decipher: "Don't take it for granted ..." As the Grant Park Music Festival commemorates its 75th anniversary season with a beautifully illustrated and extensively researched hardcover coffee-table book -- as well as its usual 10 weeks of absolutely free concerts -- we are reminded again that Chicago is the only city left in America presenting a free, open-air, professional series of orchestral concerts each summer. It's probably a phrase that we each first heard as small children and tried to decipher: "Don't take it for granted ..." As the Grant Park Music Festival commemorates its 75th anniversary season with a beautifully illustrated and extensively researched hardcover coffee-table book -- as well as its usual 10 weeks of absolutely free concerts -- we are reminded again that Chicago is the only city left in America presenting a free, open-air, professional series of orchestral concerts each summer. It's probably a phrase that we each first heard as small children and tried to decipher: "Don't take it for granted ..." As the Grant Park Music Festival commemorates its 75th anniversary season with a beautifully illustrated and extensively researched hardcover coffee-table book -- as well as its usual 10 weeks of absolutely free concerts -- we are reminded again that Chicago is the only city left in America presenting a free, open-air, professional series of orchestral concerts each summer.