Chicago Sinfonietta | Primal Instincts

Gluttony, lust, passion, grief—be ready to have your most primitive impulses triggered, when you are moved by the first notes from the tragic tale ofCarmen by Georges Bizet.

Things get even hotter with a new tango-jazz inspired work featuring incendiary Galician bagpiper Cristina Pato, before the orchestra delivers the final primordial blow with one of the most overpowering works of all time, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, inspired by medieval texts about the fickleness of fate and fortune.

Bizet Selections from Carmen Suites No.1 & No.2Solla A Galician Voyage: Concerto for Bagpipes, Piano & Orchestra*Orff  Carmina Burana

*U.S. Premiere

Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Cristina Pato, gaita
Kimberly Jones, soprano
Jonathan Calvin Weyant, tenor
Joseph Lattanzi, baritone
Roosevelt University CCPA Conservatory Chorus
Anima – Young Singers of Greater Chicago

Saturday, Mar 21, 2015
8:00 pm

Wentz Concert Hall
171 E. Chicago Ave
Naperville, IL 60540

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Monday, Mar 23, 2015
7:30 pm

Symphony Center
220 S Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604

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Elgin Symphony Orchestra - This Weekend

Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky (Sounds of Shakespeare)

Andrew Grams, Music Director 
Natasha Paremski, piano

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Tchaikovsky - The Tempest 
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet

March 7, 2015 7:30 pm
March 8, 2015 2:30 pm
Hemmens Cultural Center, Elgin

Experience the musical expression of heartfelt sincerity in Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto along with the tempestuous sounds and passionate melodies of Tchaikovsky’s Shakespearean based masterpieces.  Pianist Natasha Paremski makes her ESO debut with Music Director Andrew Grams conducting.  Paremski performs Rachmaninoff with “astonishing ease, superb control and lyrical sensitivity.” (Star Tribune, July 2014)

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