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Big Screen, Small Screen
Saturday, June 23, 2007 • 7:30 p.m.
Naperville Community Concert
Center
Central Park, Naperville
FREE Concert!
Music from the movies, TV - and the radio, too.
Sounds of the Sixties
Thursday, July 19, 2007 • 7:45
pm
Naperville Community Concert
Center
Central Park, Naperville
FREE Concert!
Hear the DSO as part of Naperville Municipal Band’s Summer Concert Series.
Tiny Great Performances at
the DuPage Children’s Museum
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Short recitals and
instrument demonstrations
presented by
chamber groups from the DSO,
specifically designed for
children and their families!
A drop-in program presenting
two
30-minute performances—at
10:30 and 11:15 a.m.—on
Saturday
mornings throughout the
season. Free with admission
to the
DuPage Children’s Museum:
www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org.
Bit o’ Broadway
Saturday, September 8, 2007 •
7:00 pm
Cantigny Park, Winfield Road, Wheaton
$15 general admission
$10 students (age 8-18)
FREE for children 7 and under
Old-time favorites by George
Gershwin, Cole Porter,
and Irving Berlin, plus
lively medleys from
well-known
Broadway musicals, make up
this year’s Cantigny fare.
Bring your family and
friends for a picnic, then
enjoy
the DSO’s magnificent
orchestral sounds in
beautiful
Cantigny Park.
Admission: $15 general; $10
ages 8-18; under 7 free.
For information and tickets,
call Cantigny at (630) 260-
8164, or visit
www.mccormicktribune.org/cantigny.
Park entrance: Winfield Road
just south of Roosevelt
Road in Wheaton.
Join Us at the River!
Saturday and Sunday,
September 15 and 16, 2007
11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Riverwalk
Art Fair
Informal performances by a
variety of chamber
ensembles drawn from the DSO
enhance Naperville’s
Riverwalk Art Fair again
this season. Stop by the
Riverwalk Amphitheatre to
enjoy some lively chamber
music and to purchase
tickets for the upcoming DSO
subscription season!
Subscription Concert #1
Turkish Delights
Saturday, October 13,
2007 | 8 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
Kamran Ince | Composer &
Pianist
Hailed by The Los Angeles
Times as “that rare
composer
able to sound connected with
modern music, and yet still
seem exotic,” award-winning
composer Kamran Ince joins
the DuPage Symphony to
perform his Concerto for
Piano
and Orchestra, a
colorful and engaging work
from 1984 that
launched his prominent
career. Presented in
conjunction with
North Central College’s 2007
“Focus on Turkey,” the
concert
opens with Mozart’s
sparkling Overture to The
Abduction from
the Seraglio and closes
with Brahms’ warmly lyrical
Symphony
No. 2 in D Major, full of
graceful, flowing melodies
and rich,
sunlit harmonies.
"Kamran Ince . . . often
beautiful and always
exciting post-minimalist
music"
-New Music Box
Chamber Music Sampler
Sunday, November 18,
2007
3 p.m., Koten Chapel
329 E. School Street
North Central College,
Naperville
The musical building blocks
of the DuPage Symphony—a
core string ensemble, a
woodwind sextet, a brass
quintet—are
featured in this chamber
music showcase, presented as
a special fundraiser for the
orchestra’s 54th season.
Repertoire ranges
from Bach to Vaughan
Williams, from Baroque to
contemporary, with a wide
array of chamber works
presented in the
intimate setting and
glorious acoustic of newly
renovated Koten Chapel.
Concert attendees will have
an opportunity to meet
the Music Director and
musicians at an informal
reception immediately
following the concert.
Donor tickets: $100
(Amount in excess of $10 per
ticket is a
tax-deductible donation)
Tiny Great Performances at
the DuPage Children’s Museum
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Short recitals and
instrument demonstrations
presented by
chamber groups from the DSO,
specifically designed for
children and their families!
A drop-in program presenting
two
30-minute performances—at
10:30 and 11:15 a.m.—on
Saturday
mornings throughout the
season. Free with admission
to the
DuPage Children’s Museum:
www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org.
Subscription Concert #2
An Old World Christmas
Sunday, December 9, 2007
| 3 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
Kimberly Jones | Soprano
A panoply of traditional
English Christmas Carols—in
lush
orchestral settings by
Brahms, Elgar, Vaughan
Williams,
and Bryan Kelly—forms the
basis of the DSO’s 2007
holiday
celebration. Soprano
Kimberly Jones, an alumna of
the
Lyric Opera Center for
American Artists, joins the
orchestra
to perform familiar arias by
Bach and Handel, plus an
assortment of popular
seasonal tunes. Celebrate
the holidays
by joining the DSO for this
distinctive Christmas
program—
and bring your family and
friends along to sample this
delectable musical repast!
“Kimberly Jones sang . . .
with limpid beauty and
affecting expression.”
—John Von Rhein, The
Chicago Tribune
Tiny Great Performances at
the DuPage Children’s Museum
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Short recitals and
instrument demonstrations
presented by
chamber groups from the DSO,
specifically designed for
children and their families!
A drop-in program presenting
two
30-minute performances—at
10:30 and 11:15 a.m.—on
Saturday
mornings throughout the
season. Free with admission
to the
DuPage Children’s Museum:
www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org.
Brownies with Barbara
Friday, February 8, 2008 |
7:30 p.m.
Witness the
“behind-the-scenes” workings
of an orchestra by attending
the first half of DSO’s
dress rehearsal for the
February or March concert.
Then join Music Director
Barbara Schubert and the DSO
musicians for refreshments
at break and ask them
questions about the music,
the orchestra, their
instruments, their
training—or anything you’d
like!
Sponsored by: My Chef
Although the “Brownies with
Barbara” program is free and
open to the public, we ask
that you kindly let the
orchestra know you are
planning to attend. That way
we are sure to have enough
brownies for all! RSVP to
(630) 778-1003 or through
our website at least three
days preceding the date you
plan to attend.
Subscription Concert #3
Sweet Fragrances of France
Saturday, February 9,
2008 | 8 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
The North Central College
Women’s Chorale
Ramona M. Wis, Founder and
Director
Sharon Quattrin, soprano,
and Victoria Verhoven,
mezzo-soprano
Another fine collaboration
with the North Central
College
Women’s Chorale, an ensemble
noted for its warm,
expressive sound and
innovative concert
programming,
forms the centerpiece of
this concert, as the Chorale
plus
soloists Sharon Quattrin and
Victoria Verhoven join us
to present Debussy’s La
damoiselle élue, an
exquisite
setting of Pre-Raphaelite
verse by Dante Gabriel
Rosetti.
Highlights from Hector
Berlioz’s passionately
beautiful
Roméo et Juliette
round out this luxuriant
program of
19th-century French
repertoire.
Chamber Music at the
Naperville 95th Street
Library
Friday, February 22,
2008 | 7:30 p.m.
Expanding its educational
outreach into the community,
the DSO
presents a springtime series
of informal and informative
chamber
music concerts at
Naperville’s 95th Street
Library—with free
admission for all interested
listeners! Check our DSO
website
to see which groups will be
appearing and to find out
what
repertoire they’ll be
presenting on the respective
dates. Library
concerts are free and open
to the public.
Tiny Great Performances at
the DuPage Children’s Museum
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Short recitals and
instrument demonstrations
presented by
chamber groups from the DSO,
specifically designed for
children and their families!
A drop-in program presenting
two
30-minute performances—at
10:30 and 11:15 a.m.—on
Saturday
mornings throughout the
season. Free with admission
to the
DuPage Children’s Museum:
www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org.
Brownies with Barbara
Friday, March 14, 2008 |
7:30 p.m.
Witness the
“behind-the-scenes” workings
of an orchestra by attending
the first half of DSO’s
dress rehearsal for the
February or March concert.
Then join Music Director
Barbara Schubert and the DSO
musicians for refreshments
at break and ask them
questions about the music,
the orchestra, their
instruments, their
training—or anything you’d
like!
Sponsored by: My Chef
Although the “Brownies with
Barbara” program is free and
open to the public, we ask
that you kindly let the
orchestra know you are
planning to attend. That way
we are sure to have enough
brownies for all! RSVP to
(630) 778-1003 or through
our website at least three
days preceding the date you
plan to attend.
Subscription Concert #4
Fresh Sounds from Old
Germany
Saturday, March 15, 2008
| 8 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
DSO 2008 Young Artist
Auditions Winner, soloist
Major works by German
masters frame the DSO’s
fourth
subscription concert: Paul
Hindemith’s Symphonic
Metamorphosis of Themes by
Carl Maria von Weber,
based
on melodies from the
Classical composer’s piano
duets,
and Felix Mendelssohn’s
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor,
the
Reformation, composed
to celebrate the 300th
anniversary
of the Augsburg Confession,
which incorporates both the
“Dresden Amen” and the
famous Lutheran chorale,
“Ein
feste Burg ist unser Gott!”
The winner of the DSO’s 2008
Young Artist Auditions is
featured on this program as
well.
Note: The DSO’s 2008 Young
Artist Auditions will take
place
in January 2008 and are open
to high school students
who live or attend school in
DuPage County. For full
information, including
eligibility requirements and
audition procedures, consult
the DSO website.
Chamber Music at the
Naperville 95th Street
Library
Friday, April 25, 2008 |
7:30 p.m.
The DuPage Symphony Brass Quartet
Mike Brozick and Norm Chindras, trumpet;
Gary Greene, French horn; Larry Tomko, trombone;
Eric Moore, tuba
The DSO Brass Quintet presents an energetic and appealing program, featuring lght Classical repertoire, show tunes,and familiar folk melodies from 'round the world. Selections from Bizet's Carmen and Bernstein's West Side Story will be featured, along with a set of Armenian songs, excerpts from Holst's Second Suite and Shepherd's Hey. If the mood is right, The Pink Panther might even appear!
A fun-filled program for all ages!
Subscription Concert #5
Russian Riches
Saturday, May 17, 2008 |
8 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
Jung Lin | Piano
Pianistic sensation Jung
Lin—a “superb artist”
and “magically refined
player” whose recent
performances of the
Rachmaninoff Third Piano
Concerto “just dazzled
everybody”—plays this
challenging and
captivatingly brilliant
showpiece
(featured in the 1996
Oscar-winning movie Shine)
to
cap the DSO’s 54th
subscription season. The
richly
imaginative Symphony No. 5
in B-flat Major (subtitled
the Heroic) by a
lesser-known Russian
Romantic
master, Alexander Glazunov,
balances out the DSO’s
season finale.
“Rarely does one hear such
mastery, artistry and
maturity of a young pianist
clearly using her
technical skills as...a
vehicle for her artistic
message.”
—Metropolitan Museum of
Art concert review
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