Event Category: Events
The spring production of Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill
Synopsis:
Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill is an imaginative modern rendition of Jane Austen’s classic novel. The play follows two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they try to navigate love, family, class status, and the many “do’s and “don’ts of 19th century England’s polite society.
The spring production of Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill
Synopsis:
Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill is an imaginative modern rendition of Jane Austen’s classic novel. The play follows two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they try to navigate love, family, class status, and the many “do’s and “don’ts of 19th century England’s polite society.
The spring production of Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill
Synopsis:
Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill is an imaginative modern rendition of Jane Austen’s classic novel. The play follows two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they try to navigate love, family, class status, and the many “do’s and “don’ts of 19th century England’s polite society.
The spring production of Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill
Synopsis:
Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill is an imaginative modern rendition of Jane Austen’s classic novel. The play follows two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they try to navigate love, family, class status, and the many “do’s and “don’ts of 19th century England’s polite society.
The spring production of Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill
Synopsis:
Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill is an imaginative modern rendition of Jane Austen’s classic novel. The play follows two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they try to navigate love, family, class status, and the many “do’s and “don’ts of 19th century England’s polite society.
The Southwest Symphony Orchestra is excited to return for its 2023-24 season! Helen Welch puts a fresh twist on America’s best loved classics.
PROGRAM:
Strike up the band,
Fever,
I Won’t Last a Day,
Too Darn Hot,
At Last,
Misty,
Trolley Song,
On a Wonderful Day Like Today,
Just the Way You Look Tonight,
Wonderful World,
I’ve Got The World On A String,
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps,
Both Sides Now,
Ella Medley
PERFORMERS:
Members of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra
Helen Welch
The Southwest Symphony Orchestra is excited to return for its 2023-24 season! The Southwest Symphony Orchestra journeys southwest!
PROGRAM:
Copland, Billy the Kid Suite
Go West! Suite
Magnificent 7/ The Good, Bad & the Ugly/ Hang ‘Em High
Still, Southwest from “The American Scene”
Wallin, Desert Moods from “Celebrate America” (World Premiere)
Square Dancing Medley
Grofé, Grand Canyon Suite
PERFORMERS:
Members of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra
IPO makes its jubilant return to the stage of Ozinga Chapel Auditorium for its 2023-24 season!
JOYFUL VOICES: SHAW & BEETHOVEN
MAY 18, 2024 – 7:30 PM
Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Chicago Community Chorus w/ Dr. Keith Hampton,
Artistic Director/ founder
Kimberly E. Jones, Soprano
Leah Dexter, Mezzo-Soprano
Ryan Townsend Strand, Tenor
Bill McMurray, Baritone
SHAW Seven Joys
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
200th Anniversary Performance
First performed in Vienna on May 7, 1824
IPO lowers the curtain on their 46th season with a resounding performance of one of music’s most celebrated and well-known works, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. With its debut performance having taken place in Vienna on May 7, 1824, IPO’s performance will commence nearly 200 years to the day after it first came alive. Also, on the bill for this epic evening will be Caroline Shaw’s Seven Joys. Kimberly E. Jones (soprano), Leah Dexter (Mezzo-Soprano), Ryan Townsend Strand (Tenor), Bill McMurray (Baritone) and the Chicago Community Chorus will lend their thunderous talents to the evening’s program.
IPO makes its jubilant return to the stage of Ozinga Chapel Auditorium for its 2023-24 season!
BOLOGNE, MOZART & HAYDEN
April 13, 2024 – 7:30 PM
Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Lee Shirer, Horn
HUÝNH (Composer-in-Residence) World Premiere
BOLOGNE Symphony No. 1
MOZART Horn Concerto No. 4
HAYDN Symphony No. 104
IPO presents IPO principal horn Lee Shirer at the helm for this stunningly opulent program of classical giants alongside a world premiere of IPO Composer-in-Residence Oswald Huỳnh.
IPO makes its jubilant return to the stage of Ozinga Chapel Auditorium for its 2023-24 season!
DEBUSSY, V. WILLIAMS & THOMAS
March 16, 2024 – 3:00 PM
Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Elizabeth Huffman, Violin
Anima Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
ChiArts
DEBUSSY (arr. Mouton) Suite bergamasque
VAUGHN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending
THOMAS Gwendolyn Brooks Settings World Premiere Co-commission
With a special afternoon matinee show time set for this youth-centered program, IPO will world premiere a co-commission with Anima-Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus by Pulitzer Prize finalist Augusta Read Thomas utilizing poems from Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks’ Bronzeville Boys and Girls and featuring vocals by Anima-Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus and ChiArts. Paired with this performance will be Vaughn Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Debussy’s Suite bergamasque. IPO Assistant Concertmaster Elizabeth Huffman steps into the solo spotlight for this afternoon performance.