The Joliet Symphony Orchestra (JSO) is pleased to announce the third concert series of its 2023-2024 Season with Artistic Director and Conductor Dr. Sean Paul Mills leading a program featuring works by Aaron Copland, Florence Price, Leonard Bernstein, and John Knowles Paine.
Titled “Remember: A Celebration of Music ‘Made in America,’” the JSO will perform Aaron Copland’s “An Outdoor Overture,” Florence Price’s “Andante Moderato,” Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” selections, and John Knowles Paine’s “Symphony No. 1 in C minor,” on Saturday, February 24, at 7 p.m., in addition to Sunday, February 25, at 4 p.m. Both performances will be held in Sexton Auditorium, in the Harold and Margaret Moser Performing Arts Center on the University of St. Francis campus, 500 Wilcox Street in Joliet.
New to the JSO this season is a series of free pre-concert discussions titled “Noteworthy.” The discussions will take place 45 minutes prior to each performance and provide audience members with an opportunity to learn more about the composers, selections, orchestra, and soloists, as well as provide a time to ask questions and interact with the conductor and guests.
Tickets for JSO concerts are available through the JSO website at www.jolietsymphonyorchestra.org, the Music at Moser website at stfrancis.edu/music-at-moser, and at the door beginning one hour before each performance. Tickets are: $10 per adult; $5 per senior, USF alumni, and non-USF student; with USF students, music educators, and youth (18 and under) admitted free with a current ID.
Please join us as we continue a season of exploration and discovery featuring both familiar and new works for symphony orchestra. The JSO season finale in April will feature trumpeter Gilmar Cavalcante as soloist in Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s trumpet concerto, along with works by Ferdinand Herold and Antonin Dvorak.