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Saturday, October 17, 2009 l 8:00 p.m.
WENTZ CONCERT HALL
Soloist: Andreas Klein, piano
The DuPage Symphony opens its 2009-2010 subscription series in the
magnificent acoustics of Wentz Concert Hall with the signature piece of
the season: Dvorak's
concert overture, "In Nature's Realm". Internationally renowned
pianist Andreas Klein then joins the DSO for Beethoven's
powerfully dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. Respighi's brilliantly evocative tone poem, "The Pines
of Rome", culminates the opening night of
the DSO's 56th season with a blaze of resplendent orchestral sound.
Jim Gill's
Symphony in Sneeze
Sunday, November 15, 2009
TWO PERFORMANCES! 2 pm. and 4 p.m.
Wentz Concert Hall
Acclaimed children's author and musician Jim Gill brings his special blend of
entertainment-and-education to Naperville for a fun-filled afternoon
with the DuPage Symphony Orchestra. These two 1-hour interactive
presentations of Symphonic Music Play are designed especially for young
children and their families The concert features many new works
including "A Soup Opera," the playful sing-along opera that
inspired Jim's latest picture book and CD, as well as "Lemonade
Serenade", "I Was Born a Horn",
and more. Be prepared for an innovative concert where you not only
listen but also clap, sing and move to Jim's music. games and rhymes!
For a sampling of what you'll here, visit www.jimgill.com.
Tickets: $10
Available from the North Central College Box Office beginning July 1.
Call (630) 637-SHOW or visit http://tickets/noctrl.edu/
Winter Dreams
Saturday, December 12, 2009 | 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 13, 2009 l 3:00 p.m.
Wentz Concert Hall
Guest Artists: The Naperville Men's Glee Club
A new twist on an old tradition; for our 2009 Holiday Concert, the DSO
is joined by the Naperville Men's Glee Club, an acclaimed ensemble of
accomplished local singers that celbrated its 20th anniversary in 2008.
The "fusion format" of this year's program features the NMGC's
traditional Advent Opening, the DSO's presentation of Tchaikovsky's charming Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Winter Dreams", and a
joining of forces for Randol Alan Bass's A Feast of Carols and other lush arrangements of familiar holiday
tunes. DSO Music Director Barbara Schubert
and NMGC Conductor Bonnie Klee Roberts share the podium in this family-friendly holiday concert.
Our Home, Our
Earth
Saturday, February 13, 2010 | 8:00 p.m.
Wentz Concert Hall
Guest Artists: North Central College Women's Chorale
The central concert of the DSO's 2009-2010 season focuses on the central
theme pf the year: our relationship with the natural world. The North
Central College Women's Chorale will join the DSO to present the world
premiere of James Falzone's "Who, if not I " -commissioned for the occasion by the DSO and
NCC's Office of International Programs as part of its 2009 focus study,
Global Environmental Change: North America. Short pieces by Glazunov and Holst plus Ferde Grofe's delightfully pictorial "Grand Canyon Suite" round out this unique
mid-winter program.
At the Foothills of
Spring
Saturday, March 20, 2010 | 8:00 p.m.
Wentz Concert Hall
DSO 2009 Young Artist
Auditions Winner, soloist
Two colorful, evocative works frame the
DSO's fourth subscription concert, presented on the very cusp of spring: Alan Hohvaness's enticing Symphony No. 2, "Mysterious Mountain", and Schumann's joyful
Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, sub-titled the "Spring" Symphony.
The winner(s) of the DuPage Symphony's 2010 Young Artist Auditions for
high school musicians will also perform*
Note: The DSO’s 2010 Young Artist Auditions will take place
on February 6, 2010; the application deadline is December 15, 2009. For
full information, including eligibility requirements and audition
procedures, consult the DSO website.
Alpine Heights
Saturday, May 15, 2010 | 8:00 p.m
Sunday, May 16, 2010 l 3:00 p.m.
Wentz Concert Hall
For a towering conclusion to our monumental 56th season, the
DSO presents Richard Strauss's masterful Alpine Symphony, a vivid orchestral expression of a
full-day excursion in the Bavarian Alps that recalls the composer's own
experience hiking on a mountain at age fourteen. Scored for huge
instrumental forces, this expansive and compelling tone poem is balanced
by two delicate musical essays to open the program: Frederick Delius's In a Summer Garden and Vaughan
Williams's The Lark Ascending,
featuring violinist Bella Hristova, a rising star who took First Prize in the 2008-2009 Young Concert
Artists International Auditions in New York City.
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