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    2024-25 Season: Bold and Beautiful

    Sunday, December 15
    "Holiday Magic"

    This year’s DSO Holiday concert – always a favorite family event! – features an array of familiar and freshly original seasonal tunes from around the world.

    And will that special someone visit us in Wentz Hall once again?

    Sunday, February 16
    "Beyond Beautiful"

    Introducing Cecil Forsyth’s melodious Viola Concerto, performed by acclaimed artist and Wheaton resident, Rose Armbrust Griffin, plus Tchaikovsky’s extraordinarily poignant Symphony No. 6, the Pathétique.


    Rose
    Armbrust Griffin

    Sunday, March 16
    "Young at Heart"

    Including an electrifying solo performance by our 2025 DSO Young Artists Audition Winner, a gala collaboration with the Young Naperville Singers, and a perennial audience favorite: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

    2025 YAA Winner

    Saturday, May 17
    "Mexican Montage"

    Celebrating the vibrant cultural heritage of our neighbors to the south, with well-known works by Aaron Copland, living Meixcan composer Arturo Márquez, and others, plus Carlos Chávez’s mesmerizing Piano Concerto with Concert Artists Guild International Competition Winner Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner.

    Llewellyn
    Sánchez-Werner

    Sunday, October 13
    "Bold Beginnings"

    A bold start to the DuPage Symphony Orchestra’s 71st concert season, with Borodin’s captivatingly dramatic Symphony No. 2 in B minor, plus the world premiere of an award-winning piece by high school composer
    Angel Alday.


    Saturday, November 16
    "Scandinavian Showcase"

    A panoply of Nordic works by Grieg, Nielsen, and Gade, plus Sibelius’s stunningly beautiful Violin Concerto, performed by Concert Artists Guild International Competition Winner
    Ariel Horowitz.

    Ariel Horowitz

    2024 Summer Concerts

    Sunday, July 21
    "All Creatures
    Great and Small"

    Guest Conductor Andrew Dogan leads the DSO in “All Creatures Great and Small” with music of Leroy Anderson, Johann Strauss, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and more!

    Admission Free!

    Wheaton
    Memorial Park

    Saturday, June 29
    "Flavors of France"

    Guest Conductor Stephen Squires leads the DSO in “Flavors of France” with music of Berlioz, Bizet, Offenbach, Saint-Saëns, and more! Within the concert is a celebration of American music, including Hollywood film hits like music from Star Wars and E.T., plus jazzy compositions by Duke Ellington and Gershwin!

    Admission Free with paid parking ($15 per car); Free to Cantigny members.

    Cantigny Park
    Wheaton

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