41st Annual Concert Season: 2017-2018
All public concerts are held in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the Music Building at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. See map of location
Program notes for the Fall Concert, the Montzka Memorial Concert, and the Spring Concert will be available here.
Most of the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra concerts will be available as radio broadcasts on WNIU after the concert dates. See this season’s schedule here.
Halloween Concert
The KSO will present its annual free concert of music with a theme appropriate for children and adults. The 5:30 concert will be repeated at 7:30, and there will be trick-or-treating in the building a half hour before the 5:30 concert.
The concert will include the following, and much more:
- Night on Bald Mountain, by Modest Mussorgsky
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens, by John Williams
- Funeral March of a Marionette, by Charles Gounod
- Theme from “Halloween”, by John Carpenter
This concert is supported in part by the Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation.
Children’s Concert
Each year, the KSO presents a concert, not open to the general public, that is specifically for students and their teachers invited from elementary schools and middle schools in our region.
This concert is supported in part by the Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation.
Holiday Pops Concert: Winter Wonderland
The KSO will warm your heart with music of the holiday season. Many holiday favorites are part of this traditional family concert.
This concert is supported in part by the George E. and Betty B. Dutton Foundation.
Encore Performance! Holiday Pops Concert: Winter Wonderland
The KSO will warm your heart with music of the holiday season. Many holiday favorites are part of this traditional family concert.
This concert is supported in part by the George E. and Betty B. Dutton Foundation.
Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition
This is a live annual competition for instrumentalists up to the age of 18 years. It open to the public at no admission charge. Each performer, with a piano accompanist, will play one or more movements of a solo concerto, or an appropriate one-movement composition, that is written for orchestral accompaniment, the performance time not to exceed 15 minutes. Audience members may arrive and leave during any of the brief breaks between the 15-minute performances. The competition winner, as determined by a panel of judges, will receive a cash award and perform as soloist with the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra in its concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 24, 2018.
Arthur D. Montzka Memorial Concert
There will be a free pre-concert lecture in the Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m.
- Overture to Ruy Blas, Op. 95, by Felix Mendelssohn
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Concerto Competition Winner, to be determined
- Valse Triste, Op. 44, No. 1, by Jean Sibelius
- Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24, by Richard Strauss
This concert is supported in part by the Mary E. Stevens Concert Trust.
Spring Concert: Bach is Back
There will be a free pre-concert lecture in the Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m.
- Escapade, by Jan Bach
- Concerto for Two Trumpets, by Antonio Vivaldi
- Concerto for Two Trumpets, by Carl Roskott, orchestrated by Jan Bach
Mark Baldin and Michael Swope, trumpet soloists - Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27, by Sergei Rachmaninoff
This concert is supported in part by the Ideal Industries Foundation with a generous gift from Jean Juday.
Note: Changes in programs, dates, times, and location of concerts will be posted at this website.
