Featured Events
Free Open Rehearsal: A Night in Old Vienna
Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7:15 pm
ESO musicians work hard at rehearsals throughout the weeks to prepare for concerts, and we invite you to join us for this free and open to the public working rehearsal!
Online registration is required in advance. Limit four tickets per household. No onsite registration accepted. Please print email confirmation to gain entry on day-of event.
A Night in Old Vienna
January 26, 2019 at 7:30 pm
January 27, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Andrew Grams, conductor
A program of waltzes & polkas reminiscent of Vienna’s famous New Year’s concert.
Natasha and the Romantics
February 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm
February 10, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Andrew Grams, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Schumann Symphony No. 4
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Free Open Rehearsal: A Night in Old Vienna
Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7:15 pm
ESO musicians work hard at rehearsals throughout the weeks to prepare for concerts, and we invite you to join us for this free and open to the public working rehearsal!
Online registration is required in advance. Limit four tickets per household. No onsite registration accepted. Please print email confirmation to gain entry on day-of event.
A Night in Old Vienna
January 26, 2019 at 7:30 pm
January 27, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Andrew Grams, conductor
A program of waltzes & polkas reminiscent of Vienna’s famous New Year’s concert.
Natasha and the Romantics
February 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm
February 10, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Andrew Grams, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Schumann Symphony No. 4
Russia Distilled: Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini
Friday, February 22, 2019
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Lecture and Vodka tasting from 7:00-9:00 PM
ArtSpace, 51 South Spring Street, Elgin
Irina Del Genio and John Schwartz, speakers
The dynamic duo of Irina Del Genio and John Schwartz will explore Russian culture at the time Tchaikovsky composed Francesca da Rimini, a wildly romantic tone poem about two lovers doomed to Dante’s Inferno. Includes Russian vodka samples, Russian tea and zakuski, or snacks.
Guitar Serenade
March 2, 2019 at 7:30 pm
March 3, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Smetana The Moldau
Villa-Lobos Concerto for Guitar & Small Orchestra
Corigliano Troubadours
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini
Inside the Music™ with Andrew Grams: Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
March 22, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Andrew Grams and the ESO explore Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter,” at this fun, informal event! For newcomers and connoisseurs alike
Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony
March 23, 2019 at 7:30 pm
March 24, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Andrew Grams, conductor
Greg Flint & Steve Replogle, horns
Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3
Telemann Concerto for Two Horns and Two Violins
Mozart Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
Concert for the “Common Man”
May 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm
May 5, 2019 at2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center
Andrew Grams, conductor
Elgin Symphony Orchestra
Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Copland Symphony No. 3
