2025 Concerts

JULY 19 | 7:30 pm

The WPFO opens its 26th season with this spectacular concert celebrating Art and Music. Headlining the program will be Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. This orchestral tour-de-force is a musical journey through a memorial exhibit of artwork by Mussorgsky’s friend Viktor Hartmann. In the hands of master composer Maurice Ravel, the original piano suite is a hallmark of an orchestra and conductor’s skill and musicality. The program includes popular selections at the interface of Art and Music, such as Ray Evans and Jay Livingston’s immortal “Mona Lisa,” Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida,” and Don MacLean’s “Vincent,” and much more.

AUGUST 2 | 7:30 pm

Dance the night away with this evening of toe-tapping, hip-swaying music. The program features music for the dance including Johann Strauss’s Voices of Spring Waltzes, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Rossini’s The Fantastic Toyshop, Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, Gliding Girl Tango, A Tribute to Elvis, and more.

AUGUST 16 | 7:30 pm

Thrill to the genius of Broadway as soprano Anne Fuchs and baritone Daniel Narducci join forces with the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra for “A Night on Broadway”. The program includes songs and duets from such shows as Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Show Boat, and more.

Baritone Daniel Narducci is a multi-faceted artist whose talents have been captured through live stage presentations, recording, and television productions. READ HIS BIO HERE.

Soprano Anne Fuchs is an internationally recognized performer and passionate promoter of the vocal arts.  READ HER BIO HERE.

AUGUST 31 | 7:30 pm

Don’t miss the season finale—our annual Labor Day Weekend celebration, with great American music and a spectacular fireworks display over Lake Michigan accompanied by live music by full symphony orchestra. This year’s concert features music by Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, George Chadwick, Victoria Bond, Carlos Simon, and Ferde Grofé. The program ends with Tchaikovsky’s famous 1812 Overture and John Philip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever as fireworks explode over Lake Michigan.