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For Immediate Release:
May 1, 2015
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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
SPRING 2015 CONCERTS IN CHICAGO’S
WESTERN SUBURBS
CSO Performs at The Morton Arboretum, June 25-27
Concerts for Young Children and Families Planned for May and June
CHICAGO—After two highly successful sets of concerts at The Morton Arboretum in 2013 and
2014, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and The Morton Arboretum continue their
partnership when the CSO returns to Lisle in 2015 for three performances, on June 25, 26 and
27, 2015. Guest conductors James Feddeck (June 26 and 27) and Richard Kaufman (June 25)
lead the CSO in familiar classical works and well-known film scores.
In addition to these concerts, musicians from the CSO will also perform in other areas of
DuPage County and Chicago’s western suburbs this spring, including two family concerts at
Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville on Sunday, May 17, and the Once Upon a
Symphony® production of The Little Red Hen—music and storytelling for ages 3-5—at the
McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn on Sunday, June 14.
On Friday and Saturday, June 26 and 27, guest conductor James Feddeck leads the CSO at
The Morton Arboretum in two programs of familiar classical repertoire. The concert on Friday,
June 26, is an all-Russian program including Stravinsky’s Circus Polka and Suite from The
Firebird, and Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony.
CSO Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin is the featured soloist with Feddeck and the CSO in
Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto on Saturday, June 27. Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
opens the program; Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique concludes the evening. Feddeck will make
his CSO subscription concert debut at Symphony Center in October 2015 on a program that
includes Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto featuring CSO Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin, as
well as works by Rachmaninov and Franck.
On Thursday, June 25, guest conductor Richard Kaufman leads a program entitled Hollywood
Heroes and Superheroes, featuring music from some of Hollywood’s most renowned and
recognizable scores, such as Spider-Man, Star Trek, Batman, Star Wars, Austin Powers, and
more.
CSO Assistant Principal Cello Kenneth Olsen is the featured soloist on Sunday, May 17, when
members of the CSO, with guest conductor Rei Hotoda, return to Naperville’s Neuqua Valley
High School for two performances of an all-Tchaikovsky program designed for families.
Concerts take place at 1:30 and 3:15 p.m. Tickets are $15 and $20.
On Sunday, June 14, members of the CSO and actor Lily Emerson perform the Once Upon a
Symphony® production of The Little Red Hen at 1:30 p.m. at the McAninch Arts Center at
College of DuPage (Fawell and Park Boulevards) in Glen Ellyn. Pre-concert activities, led by
music educators, begin 45 minutes before the performance. The unique Once Upon a
Symphony® program is designed for children ages 3-5 and focuses on storytelling through
music. Tickets are $14 and $16 and are available via atthemac.org, at the MAC box office or by
calling 630-942-4000.
These performances are generously supported by The JCS Fund of the DuPage Community
Foundation. The May 17 Family Concert performances by Members of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra are presented in collaboration with Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville. The
June 14 performance of the CSO’s Once Upon a Symphony® program is presented in
partnership with the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage.
In addition, musicians from the CSO and Civic Orchestra of Chicago were active this spring with
several school-based activities in the western suburbs. The activities, organized and presented
by the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO, took place in March and April 2015. CSO
musicians John Hagstrom (trumpet) and Patsy Dash (percussion) performed and talked about
their own personal musical journeys in hour-long Dream Out Loud programs for music students
in Elmhurst and Naperville. Citizen Musician Fellows, a select group of musicians from the Civic
Orchestra of Chicago, were “in residence” at eight different suburban schools in Addison,
Elmhurst, Lombard, Naperville and Villa Park. The Fellows offered masterclasses, chamber
ensemble performances and an opportunity to talk together about the life-long benefits of music,
including skills that are transferrable to other parts of a person’s life and career success.
In May, there will be an Orchestra Explorers® in-school workshop focused on the curriculum
that is inspired by Stravinsky’s music from The Firebird for DuPage county classroom teachers
and Music Education students from Wheaton College and Elmhurst College. Orchestra
Explorers® is a curriculum designed to be accessible for teachers who do not have a
background in orchestral music, offering multidisciplinary lesson plans and recordings featuring
spoken introductions and explanations by CSO musicians.
Tickets for all CSOA-presented concerts can be purchased by phone at 800-223-7114 or 312294-3000; online at cso.org, or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60604.
Artists, programs and prices are subject to change.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Family Concert
Neuqua Valley High School
Auditorium
2360 95th Street, Naperville
Sunday, May 17, at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, at 3:15 p.m.
Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rei Hotoda, conductor
Kenneth Olsen, cello
Program to include:
TCHAIKOVSKY "Russian Dance" from Suite No. 1 from The
Nutcracker
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 (Andante, Scherzo)
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and
Orchestra, Op. 33
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C Major (Finale)
TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74,
(Pathétique) (Adagio - Allegro non troppo)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 (Finale)
Tickets: $15-$20
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Once Upon a Symphony
McAninch Arts Center
College of DuPage
Glen Ellyn, IL
(Fawell and Park Blvds.)
Sunday, June 14 at 1:30 p.m.
Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Little Red Hen
Susan Synnestvedt, violin
Catherine Brubaker, viola
Daniel Armstrong, bass
Lily Emerson, actor
Tickets: $16 adult / $14 youth
Available for purchase via atthemac.org, at the MAC box office
or by calling 630-942-4000.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Morton Arboretum
4100 Illinois Route 53
Lisle, IL
Thursday, June 25, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Richard Kaufman, conductor
Hollywood Heroes and Superheroes
MOROSS The Big Country Main Title
TIOMKIN Theme from High Noon
ELFMAN Batman Suite
BERNSTEIN Theme from To Kill a Mockingbird
BROUGHTON Young Sherlock Holmes
CLINTON Shagadelic Suite, The Music of Austin Powers
WILLIAMS Throne Room and End Title from Star Wars
GOODWIN 633 Squadron
HOLDRIDGE The Tuskegee Airmen
WILLIAMS March from Midway
COURAGE Star Trek Theme
BERNSTEIN Airplane! Suite
ELFMAN Spider-Man Suite
Tickets: $49*
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Morton Arboretum
4100 Illinois Route 53
Lisle, IL
Friday, June 26, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
James Feddeck, conductor
STRAVINSKY Circus Polka
STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919 revision)
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op.27
Tickets: $40*
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Morton Arboretum
4100 Illinois Route 53
Lisle, IL
Saturday, June 27, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
James Feddeck, conductor
Christopher Martin, trumpet
GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major, Hob. Vlle:1
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Tickets: $40*
* CSO subscribers and members of The Morton Arboretum receive a discounted price.
About James Feddeck
About Rei Hotoda
About Richard Kaufman
About Christopher Martin
About Kenneth Olsen
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra: http://www.cso.org and http://www.csosoundsandstories.org/.
Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest
orchestras in the world. Since 2010, the preeminent conductor Riccardo Muti has served as its 10th
music director. Pierre Boulez is the CSO’s Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, Yo-Yo Ma is its Judson
and Joyce Green Creative Consultant, and Mason Bates and Anna Clyne are its Mead Composers-inResidence.
From baroque through contemporary music, the CSO commands a vast repertoire. Its renowned
musicians annually perform more than 150 concerts, most at Symphony Center in Chicago and, each
summer, at the suburban Ravinia Festival. They regularly tour nationally and internationally. Since 1892,
the CSO has made 58 international tours, performing in 29 countries on five continents.
People around the globe listen to weekly radio broadcasts of CSO concerts and recordings on the WFMT
network and online at cso.org/radio. Recordings by the CSO have earned 62 Grammy Awards, including
two in 2011 for Muti’s recording with the CSO and Chorus of Verdi's Messa da Requiem (Muti’s first of
four releases with the CSO to date). Find details on these and many other CSO recordings at
www.cso.org/resound
The CSO is part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, which includes the Chicago Symphony
Chorus (Duain Wolfe, Director and Conductor) and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, a preprofessional
training ensemble. Through its prestigious Symphony Center Presents series, the CSOA presents guest
artists and ensembles from a variety of genres—classical, jazz, world, and contemporary.
The Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO offers community and education programs that annually
engage more than 200,000 people of diverse ages and backgrounds. Through the Institute and other
activities, including a free annual concert with Muti and the CSO, the CSO promotes the concept of
Citizen Musicianship™: using the power of music to create connections and build community.
The CSO is supported by tens of thousands of patrons, volunteers and institutional and individual donors.
Bank of America is the Global Sponsor of the CSO. The CSO’s music director position is endowed in
perpetuity by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation. The Negaunee Foundation provides
generous support in perpetuity for the work of the Negaunee Music Institute.
About The Morton Arboretum
The Morton Arboretum is an internationally recognized outdoor tree museum on 1,700 acres. Plant
collections, scientific research and education programs support the mission to plant and conserve trees
and other plants for a greener, healthier and more beautiful world. Designed with natural landscapes, the
grounds include the award-winning, four-acre interactive Children’s Garden, the one-acre Maze Garden,
plus specialty gardens, 16 miles of trails and nine miles of roads. Visitor experiences include the open-air
tram ride, guided walks, Arbor Day celebrations, concerts, art shows, the Fall Color Festival, Illumination
and special exhibits. The Arboretum welcomes 930,000 visitors annually and receives support from
39,250 member households. Located 25 miles west of Chicago in Lisle, Illinois, the Arboretum is open
daily 7 a.m. until sunset. Learn more at mortonarb.org.
About the MAC
McAninch Arts Center (MAC) at College of DuPage is located 25 miles west of Chicago near
I-88 and I-355, and houses three performance spaces (the 780-seat proscenium Belushi Performance
Hall; the 186-seat soft-thrust Playhouse Theatre; and the versatile black box Studio Theatre), plus the
Cleve Carney Art Gallery, classrooms for the college’s academic programming and the Lakeside Pavilion.
The MAC has presented theater, music, dance and visual art to more than 1.5 million people since its
opening in 1986 and typically welcomes more than 75,000 patrons from the greater Chicago area to more
than 230 performances each season.
The mission of the MAC is to foster enlightened educational and performance opportunities, which
encourage artistic expression, establish a lasting relationship between people and art, and enrich the
cultural vitality of the community. For more information about the MAC, visit AtTheMAC.org. You can also
learn more about the MAC on Facebook at facebook.com/AtTheMAC or on twitter at
twitter.com/AtTheMAC.