Classical Series
"Great Expectations"
Saturday, October 13, 2012 • 8:00 pm
Naperville native Peter Kolkay - the only bassoon player to ever win the Concert Artists Guild International Competition - returns as soloist with the DSO in John Williams' The Five Sacred Trees. Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony - based on Lord Byron's tormented hero, completes this dramatic opening concert.
"British Masters"
Sunday, November 18, 2012 • 3:00 pm
William Walton's Portsmoth Point Overture provides a fitting introduction for Ralph Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel - skillful settings of nine poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, sung by Chicago favorite Jeffrey Ray. Sir Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations concludes this colorful and appealing program.
"Shakespeare in Music"
Saturday, February 9, 2013 • 8:00 pm
William Shakespeare is showcased with Berlioz' stirring King Lear Overture and Shostakovich's gripping Hamlet Suite. Plus, the DSO welcomes internationally acclaimed saxophonist Ashu to perform Claude Debussy's Rhapsodie and Astor Piazzolla's Two Tangos. "Riveting...Brilliant...pizzaz to burn!"
"Legends and Literature"
Saturday, March 16, 2013 • 8:00 pm
Music of
Beethoven and Liszt open the DSO's March concert, which features the winner of the DuPage Symphony's 2013 Young Artist's Auditions. The evening concludes with Igor Stravinsky's Petrouchka, the second of the composer's groundbreaking series of ballets written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
"...de las Mancha"
Saturday, May 11, 2013 • 8:00 pm
Richard Strauss's monumental tone poem Don Quixote - a set of "Fantastic Variations on Themes of Knightly Character" based on Cervantes' magnum opus - culminates the DSO's season, with violoncello soloist Sebastian Bäverstam. Schumann's Manfred Overture and Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini make up the first half of the program.