GPMF Quiz

In what year was the Grant Park Chorus formed?

The 2025 Season of the Festival is going to be the best one yet!

What is the name of the historic marketplace in Chicago, known for its wholesale produce and food businesses?

What is the mission of the Grant Park Music Festival?

Which of these Chicago landmarks was not part of the Century of Progress International Exposition in 1933-34

Who designed the Jay Pritzker Pavilion?

Each of the variations in Elgar's Enigma Variations represents what?

What did the designer of the Pritzker Pavilion call the dramatic structure above the stage?

The Festival is known for its innovative programming, which includes:

Which architect's "Plan of Chicago" significantly shaped the city's future development?

Which of these Chicago neighborhoods was once known as "Little Bohemia"?

What was the name of the World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893?

Which of these musicians was not significantly associated with the Chicago blues scene?

Margaret Bonds was a significant figure in

The Grant Park Music Festival's old performance venue, named the Petrillo Music Shell, was named after which individual?

Beethoven's 6th Symphony breaks with tradition in terms of the number of movements it has. How many does it have?

Which of the following phrases was used in a review of the premiere of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto

Which of these Chicago neighborhoods is known for its large Vietnamese population?

Which of these Chicago-based companies was not a major mail-order retailer?

The Hull House, a significant social settlement in Chicago, was founded by which prominent social reformer?

What is the name of brick that gained popularity in Chicago due to its resilience after the Great Chicago Fire?

Which of these Chicago literary figures was not part of the Chicago Literary Renaissance of the early 20th century?

What is the name of the sound design firm that created the sound system for the Pritzker Pavilion?

What is the official seating capacity of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion?

Who directed the acclaimed 1954 film On the Waterfront for which Bernstein composed the music?

Jake Runestad, whose Earth Symphony we are performing, is from what Illinois city?

What was the name of the infamous gangster who dominated organized crime in Chicago during the Prohibition era?

The Planets features movements named after a planet/astrological character. Which movement is "The Bringer of Jollity?"

Giancarlo Guerrero was born in what country?

What was the first musical of Rodgers and Hammerstein?

What HBO show features a performance by soprano Janai Brugger, who will appear this season?

Which composer has been performed the most at the Festival, with 672 performances?

What is the official hotel sponsor of the Grant Park Music Festival?

The Festival holds a unique partnership with the Chicago Park District and what other municipal agency?

What was the purpose of the Chicago Water Tower, one of the few public buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire?

The "Chicago School" is most notably associated with which field?

Which of these Chicago-based breweries predates Prohibition?

What was one of the first big steps in the Festival's expansion in the 1940s?

What is the distinctive and innovative feature at the beginning of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4?

Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod are from which opera?

What themes are explored in Carmina Burana?

What year was July 4 officially named Independence Day?

Chris Collins is a pretty awesome person

What is the first instrument that plays in Ravel's Bolero?

How many seasons will the Grant Park Music Festival have presented at the end of 2025?

Debussy's "La Mer" evokes the sounds and images of:

How many concerts has the Festival held?

What instrument did Mozart include in the orchestration of the Paris Symphony for the first time?

What movie features themes from Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony?

Giancarlo Guerrero represents the organization's _____________ principal conductor.

What bandleader's orchestra premiered Rhapsody in Blue, with Gershwin as the piano soloist?

What was the name of the influential Chicago African American newspaper founded by Robert Sengstacke Abbott?

What familiar tune is famously distorted into a macabre funeral march in the third movement of Mahler's First Symphony?

In what year did the Festival relocate to Millennium Park?

Mark Adamo's "Last Year" is written about what?

What is musical form is Strauss's Death and Transfiguration?

Which Russian opera was performed as a 3-hour concert version to open the Festival's 1990 season?

Stravinsky's Firebird, while most often performed by an orchestra only, was originally:

What was the original name of the settlement that would eventually become Chicago?

Which movie features music performed by Joshua Bell?