The DuPage Symphony Orchestra continues its 2014-2015 Concert Season with From Tsarist Times as part of its series featuring the theme Music, the Global Language.
Music Director Maestra Barbara Schubert conducts the DSO, honored by the Illinois Council of Orchestras as the 2013 Community Orchestra of the Year, in a dual performance at Wentz Concert Hall, 171 E. Chicago Avenue in Naperville, on at 8PM Sat., Nov. 22 and at 3PM Sun., Nov. 23.
World-renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine, hailed by as ‘an exciting, boundary-defying performer’, returns to share the Wentz Hall stage with the DuPage Symphony Orchestra in Alexander Glazunov’s magnificent, virtuosic Violin Concerto.
Also on the program of all Russian repertoire: Glazunov’s melodious Overture Solennelle and Tchaikovsky’s powerful Symphony No. 4 in F minor.
Tickets for these performances are $35 balcony/$30 main floor for adults, $31 balcony/$26 main floor for seniors (65+), and $17 balcony/$12 main floor for students. Tickets can be purchased online at www.dupagesymphony.org by calling the North Central College Box Office at 630-637-SHOW (7469).
Celebrating its 61st anniversary season, the DuPage Symphony Orchestra is an 85-member ensemble of talented area musicians dedicated to the orchestra’s mission of ‘Surrounding Our Community with Music’. The DSO presents a season of five subscription programs and a family concert at Wentz Hall in Naperville, a series of intimate chamber music concerts in Wheaton and Lombard, and outreach performances throughout DuPage County.
For more information, call the DSO office at (630) 778.1003 or visit the orchestra’s website www.dupagesymphony.org.