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UPCOMING CONCERTS
Enjoy a variety of concert experiences in our 2011-12 season!
Our chamber concerts feature beautiful music for small ensembles -- they're intermission free and last about an hour. Our symphonic concerts present spectacular orchestral and choral works in a traditional two-hour format with intermission.
SHOW BOAT AND
PORGY & BESS |
symphonic concert with chorus
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February 12, 2012 - 3:30 p.m.
York High School
355 W. St. Charles Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126
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| The powerful stories of life and love in Gershwin's Porgy & Bess and Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat made history in the 1920s and 1930s. At our February concert, you'll delight in the enduring songs from these classic American stage productions, sung by full chorus and soloists Elizabeth Norman, ChrisTopher Joyner and Robert Sims (hear interview): Ol' Man River (listen), I Got Plenty of Nuttin' (listen), You Are Love, It Ain't Necessarily So, and Summertime. Narration by WGN radio Saturday-morning host Bill Moller. |
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symphonic concert with youth soloist |
March 18, 2012 - 3:30 p.m.
Westmont High School
909 Oakwood Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
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Brahms' Symphony No. 1 is one of the most riveting and profoundly emotional symphonies ever written. This beautiful work anchors our March concert, introduced by the rollicking Slavonic Dances that established Dvorak as a leading composer and the rousing overture to Rossini's opera Semiramide. Brandon Sheppard of Lockport, the winner of our 65th annual solo competition for high school musicians, will also perform Weber's Concerto No. 1 for Clarinet.
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| CLASSICAL TREASURES |
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chamber concert |
April 22, 2012 - 3:30 p.m.
First United Methodist Church of La Grange
100 W Cossitt Ave, La Grange, IL 60525 |
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While working in London in the early 1790s, Haydn wrote his Symphonies 93-104: a dozen enduringly popular works, all imbued with a sense of wit and joy. This spring concert presents Haydn's landmark 102nd symphony - complemented by Mendelssohn's Fair Melusine Overture and orchestral selections from three operas: Verdi's La Traviata, Rossini's William Tell, and Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito. With our special intermission-free format for this concert, you'll enjoy all of this exciting music in just over an hour.
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| VOYAGERS |
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symphonic concert |
May 19, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Hinsdale Central High School
55th & Grant Streets, Hinsdale, IL 60521 |
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Richard Strauss said his magnificent tone poem, Also Sprach Zarathustra, conveyed "the development of the human race from its origin...up to Nietzsche's idea of the Superman." Its majestic opening, "Sunrise," introduces the iconic first scene of the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey. Our May concert pairs Strauss's epic work with popular music inspired by travelers in and on the seas, including Hovhannes's And God Created Great Whales and Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture.
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Concerts
