The Elgin Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Chad Goodman take a bow at a holiday concert in December.
In Thursday’s (2/15) WFMT (Chicago), Keegan Morris reports, “A milestone year approaches for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, as the ensemble announces its 75th anniversary season. The six-program mainstage Classics Series is at the core of the orchestra’s work. All performances in the series will be held at Hemmens Cultural Center in the northwest Chicago suburb Elgin. Each will be conducted by Chad Goodman, who is currently partway through his first season as Elgin’s music director. The … upcoming season is the first programmed entirely by Goodman. Opening the season in late September is a program sampling the sounds of the Iberian Peninsula and Central America—works by Gabriela Ortiz, Manuel de Falla, and Joaquín Rodrigo culminate in Maurice Ravel’s Boléro…. In November, Joyce Yang performs Grieg’s Piano Concerto in a program that also features Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony. In January 2025, the orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s Symphony Pathétique and welcomes cellist Matthew Agnew [in] the first Saint-Saëns cello concerto. Stella Chen joins the orchestra in March to perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, to complement Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony. April sees the orchestra showcase soloist Samuel Vargas in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto before Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony. Closing out the season in May is a program built around Holst’s Planets.” Programming outside the Classics Series will be announced later.
