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2023-24
Past Concerts

Scroll through the slides to read about last season’s concerts. If you would like to learn more about the educational resources that were created to enhance the concert experience, visit the 2023-24 Connect with Music page.
"Echoes of the English Soul"
Saturday, October 14
Under the baton of Music Director Barbara Schubert, the 70th Anniversary Season opened with “Echoes of the English Soul,” featuring Concert Artists Guild and Sphinx Competition Winner Gabriel Martins. This highly acclaimed soloist enraptured listeners with his performance of Edward Elgar’s deeply moving Cello Concerto of 1919. The program also included two noteworthy works by Ralph Vaughan Williams – his playful Overture to The Wasps and the powerful Symphony No. 9, his final work in the genre.
"Magic of the Magyars"
Saturday, November 18
Rich Hungarian flavors enthralled DSO audiences in “Magic of the Magyars,” featuring Franz Liszt’s enchanting Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 and Zoltán Kodály’s charming Háry János Suite. Renowned bassoon soloist Eleni Katz took listeners on a special journey with her spellbinding performance of Weber’s Hungarian-infused work, the Andante e Rondo ungarese. Liszt’s powerful and dramatic tone poem Les préludes caps the evening.
"Holly Jolly Harmonies"
Sunday, December 1y
A holiday spectacular of familiar favorites and reimagined seasonal melodies thrilled our sold out audiences! These concerts featured a number of holiday medleys that weaved holiday songs such as It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Silver Bells, and The Christmas Song together. Some of our favorite classics, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas and Jules Styne’s Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, and Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, rounded out the concert.
"Reflections
of the Rus'"
Sunday, February 11
The DSO dazzled with an Eastern European inspired concert, which featured Concert Artists Guild Winner Adam Sadberry, one of the Washington Post’s “23 for ’23 Artists to Watch.” This eminent young virtuoso performed Aram Khachaturian’s mesmerizing Flute Concerto, originally written for violin. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed Symphony No. 3, known as The Polish, rounded out the program.
"Springtime Celebrations"
Sunday, March 17
The DuPage Symphony celebrated the cultural holidays of springtime with Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture, Richard Strauss’s playful tone poem Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, and Victor Herbert’s folk tune flavored Irish Rhapsody. The concert also featured the first place winner of the DSO’s 2024 Young Artists Auditions, Henry Auxenfans, on the violin.
"Modern & Melodious"
Saturday, May 18
For the grand finale of the DSO’s 70th Anniversary Season, celebrated trumpet player Mary Elizabeth Bowden performed the hauntingly beautiful (yet seldom heard) Trumpet Concerto of 1963 by Welsh composer Grace Williams. Bowden was joined on stage by DSO trumpeter, Garth Anderson, to play an orchestral showpiece by Gala Flagello. For an exuberant close to the year, the DSO presented Leonard Bernstein’s vibrant and infectiously upbeat “Symphonic Dances” from West Side Story!

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