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2016–2017 CONCERT SERIES

EVANSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRALawrence Eckerling, Music Director

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Make sure your holiday season starts withthe best holiday event in Evanston! Don’tmiss enjoying these favorite Yule festivities

with your family and friends …• North Shore Choral Society

• Evanston Dance Ensemble• Evanston Children’s Choir

• The Evanston Symphony Holiday Gospel Choir• ETHS Concert Choir & A Cappella Singers

• Audience Sing-a-Long • Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus• And, a BIG bonus for all kids from

1 to 101 — a visit from Santa and his elves!

EVANSTON SYMPHONYHOLIDAY CONCERT

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 20163:00 PMTo guarantee your seat, order tickets for the Evanston Symphonyholiday concert along with your concert series subscription soyou won’t have to give it another thought.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2016—3:00 PMEvanston Township High School Auditorium 1600 Dodge, Evanston

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2:30 PM ONSUNDAY MARCH 5, 2017

Our blockbuster 71st seasonopens with three favorite

Viennese composers, and withthe Evanston Symphony debutof fast-rising star AlexandraSwitala in Mozart’s final violinconcerto. Schubert began hisfinal symphony a year after attending the premiere ofBeethoven’s 9th, and this“Great” C Major symphonylives up to its Beethovenian inspiration,although without using a chorus and vocal soloists.

BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major “Turkish”

Alexandra Switala, Violin

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 in C Major “The Great”

Alexandra Switala, Violin

Kate Liu returns to theEvanston Symphony to

celebrate Chopin’s birthday(four days late) in his glitteringFirst Piano Concerto. This isthe concerto in which Katewon third prize in last year’sInternational ChopinCompetition, the firstAmerican to win a prize theresince 1970. The Symphoniefantastique of Hector Berlioz is among the mostrevolutionary orchestral advances in music history, andits 1830 premiere followed that of Chopin’s concerto byless than two months.

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor Kate Liu, Piano

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

2:30 PM ONSUNDAY OCTOBER 30, 2016

BLOCKBUSTERSFROM VIENNA

BLOCKBUSTERSOF 1830

Kate Liu, Piano

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PRE-CONCERT MUSICAL INSIGHTS

Everyone is invited to enjoy a sneak preview!Composers come alive and their passions

take center stage when ESO’s Maestro LawrenceEckerling and General Manager David Ellis take

you on an insider’s tour of the history and highlights behindthe music. Join us for pre-concert Musical Insights previews

at 1:30 p.m. on the Friday preceding each Sunday’s scheduled concerts at The Merion,1611 Chicago Ave., Evanston.

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Phenomenal virtuoso JeffreyBiegel debuts with the ESO

in the blockbuster of all pianoconcertos, the Third Concertoof Rachmaninoff. The 1996 filmShine was built around thestruggles of pianist DavidHelfgott with the mental andpianist challenges posed by thisepic concerto. Prokofiev’sconcert suite drawn from his1934 score for the Soviet film Lt. Kije is a long-timefavorite, and the program concludes with anotherconcert suite, prepared by composer John Williamsfrom his blockbuster Star Wars.

PROKOFIEV Lt. Kije Suite

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor Jeffrey Biegel, Piano

WILLIAMS Star Wars Symphonic Suite

Our blockbuster seasonconcludes as it began,

with a monumental workinspired by Beethoven’s 9thSymphony. Gustav Mahler’sSecond Symphony includesvocal soloists and full chorus,but adds organ, bells, and amultitude of extra orchestralplayers, both on-stage and off-stage, to create anoverwhelming narrative of death and eventualresurrection. The North Shore Choral Society joins theESO for the choral finale of the “Resurrection” as well asin a brief motet from Mozart’s final months.

MOZART Ave Verum Corpus North Shore Choral Society

MAHLER Symphony No. 2 in C Minor “Resurrection”

North Shore Choral Society Soprano and Alto TBA

Jeffrey Biegel, Piano

North Shore Choral Society

LAWRENCE ECKERLING, CONDUCTOR LAWRENCE ECKERLING, CONDUCTOR

2:30 PM ONSUNDAY MAY 7, 2017

CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS

2:30 PM ONSUNDAY JUNE 11, 2017

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