Northwest Symphony concert Sunday at Forest View in Arlington Heights
Northwest Symphony Orchestra will present Delight, its final concert of the season, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 22, at the Forest View Education Center, 2121 Goebbert Road, Arlington Heights. A commentary by Maestra Kim Diehnelt precedes the concert at 2:45 p.m.
The concert opens with Eric Wolfgang Korngold's Academy-Award nominated score for the 1940 Errol Flynn swashbuckler, "The Sea Hawk," followed by Edward Elgar's "Cello Concerto," featuring Leevy Williams, winner of symphony's annual Paul Vermel Young Artist Award. Williams's sensitivity to the emotional expressiveness of the work belies the notion that maturity is a product of age alone.
Williams, 17, is the Kay and Jim Mabie Merit Scholar Fellow at the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago. She began her cello studies in 2002 at the Old Town School of Folk Music. A senior at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School, Williams since her freshman year she has served as principal cellist in the Lincoln Park Symphony Orchestra. She also served as principal cellist with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras and has received many music awards.
Another work is music from the movie "Apollo 13." James Horner composed for more than 100 movie scores, with this is regarded as his greatest achievement.
And from Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite," "In the Hall of the Mountain King," has come to be accepted as the ultimate musical representation of unease progressing to dread and, ultimately, terror; while "Morning Song" evokes the grandeur of the dawn and a mood of peace and happiness.
The orchestra, founded in 1951, numbers more than 70 instrumentalists, ranging from students to music professionals. Orchestra members, chosen by audition, meet weekly to rehearse.
Tickets are $20, $15 for seniors and $10 for students and free for children 14 and younger with a paying adult. Tickets are available at the door, www.northwestsymphony.org, or the box office 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. For information, call (847) 965-7271.