In 2000 , the Festival reached an agreement with Cedille Records to record the Grant Park Orchestra . It produced six CDs during the decade . In 2001 , Boston Landmarks Orchestra was founded for the purpose of providing a free summer concert series in Boston 's Hatch Memorial Shell and now claims to also provide an annual free summer music series . On July 16 , 2004 , the Festival moved to the state of the art Pritzker Pavilion , where it shares space with a regular world music series ( " Music Without Borders " ) , a jazz series ( " Made in Chicago " ) and a variety of annual performances by Steppenwolf Theatre , Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Nonetheless , the Festival remains the core of the summer program with its Wednesday , Friday and Saturday evening performances for ten weeks during the heart of the summer . At the end of the 2005 Grant Park Music Festival season in August , the Festival 's Grant Park Orchestra and Carlos Kalmar presented Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Adams ' '' On the Transmigration of Souls '' , which was written at the request of the New York Philharmonic to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks . In 2006 , the Joffrey Ballet celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in a collaboration with the Festival . During the decade , the Festival hosted an innovative array of talents such as Chinese erhu player Betti Xiang , pipa player Yang Wei , Portuguese fado singer Mariza , Cuban classical and jazz clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera , Hungarian-Roma fiddler Roby Lakatos and Mediterranean singer Maria del Mar Bonet
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Grant Park Music Festival