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    American Romantics

    Sunday, March 15, 2015

    COPLAND

    PÄRT

    BARBER

    HANSON

    with Desirée Ruhstrat, violin

    Desiree Ruhstrat, violin

     

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2014–2015 CONCERT SERIES: ROMANTICISM ENDURES

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Are you looking to buy a gift for someone a Amazon? Need to stock up on supplies from Amazon?

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Musical Insights

Free Pre-Concert Preview Series!

Enhance your concert experience with a sneak preview — Composers come alive and their passions take center stage when ESO General Manager David Ellis and ESO Maestro Lawrence Eckerling take you on an insider’s tour of the history and highlights behind the music.

Meet our soloist, Desirée Ruhstrat, at Musical Insights. She and our Maestro Lawrence Eckerling and David Ellis will explore the March concert program in depth.

The Merion
Friday, March 13 at 1:30 pm,
The Merion Crystal Ballroom at
1611 Chicago Avenue at Davis Street, Evanston.
FREE and open to the public.

Light refreshments will be served and casual tours of newly renovated apartments will be available after the program.

February Concert Rescheduled

German Favorites Concert has been rescheduled for May 31.

We fortunately have been able to reschedule our snowed-out February 1, 2015 concertt, German Favorites, to May 31, 2015. The time of 2:30 p.m. and the location of Pick-Staiger Concert Hall are the same, and the program, featuring Michelle Areyzaga singing Strauss' Four Last Songs, also remains the same.

February 1/ May 31 concert ticket procedures

Keep your February 1 tickets for use on May 31. You do not have to do anything else except show up on May 31!

Additional May 31st tickets are also available for purchase online now.

If you cannot attend on the new date of May 31, you have several options:

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Improved Pick-Staiger Access

Breaking news (1/19/2015): Arts Circle Drive, leading up to Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, is now fully open. You can drive all the way up to the entrance now to drop people off. Both levels of the parking garage are open, with exits at the east and west ends.

If you park on the upper level, the eastern pedestrian exit is now on the same level as Pick Staiger. There are no steps at all between the parking and the concert hall, and no hill to climb.

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Northwestern Alum Howard Hanson's "Romantic" Symphony

Howard Hanson

Howard Harold Hanson, one of our most famous 20th century composers, was best known for Symphony No. 2 (“Romantic”). The Evanston Symphony Orchestra will showcase this sweeping work at its March 15 concert.

Hanson, who was also a conductor, educator and music theorist, served as director of the Eastman School of Music for 40 years. He also has a personal connection to Evanston: He received his bachelor’s degree in music from Northwestern University.

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Barber's Uncompromised Violin Concerto

Samuel Barber in 1944

The Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber has an interesting provenance. It was commissioned by Philadelphia industrialist Samuel Simeon Fels, who headed the company that developed Fels-Naptha soap, and premiered in 1941 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The soloist was Albert Spalding, whose uncle of the same name was a Hall of Fame pitcher and founder of the National League as well as the Spalding sporting goods company.

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