The Elgin Symphony Orchestra presents the “Music You Know” concert April 12 in the Blizzard Theatre at Elgin Community College.
The “Music You Know” concert is at 6:30 p.m. April 12 in the Blizzard Theatre at Elgin Community College in Elgin. Elgin Symphony Orchestra music director Chad Goodman will lead the orchestra in a 90-minute program.
This is the second “Music You Know” concert of the season and the fourth overall, he said. It features shorter works, eight to 12 pieces of music; including overtures, selections from bigger pieces or single movements and themes from movie and television soundtracks, he said. That includes selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty,” Bartók’s “Romanian Folk Dances,” Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Aaron Copland’s “Saturday Night Waltz” from his ballet “Rodeo” and Astor Piazzolla’s “Oblivion.”“I always say putting together programs is like doing a sudoku puzzle,” he said. “Sometimes there’s a piece you really want to do but it doesn’t quite fit. The process requires a lot of time and a lot of research.
“That’s a piece that’s not commonly heard but I want to encourage audiences and expose them to it because it’s beautiful music and you can hear how it impacted the future of all sorts of American music. That did involve a lot of research. I’m excited to share this with our audience.”“You’re going to get a ton of variety. I’m going to be speaking to the audience. That’s something I love to do,” he said.
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