New Philharmonic announces 2017-18 season in Glen Ellyn

Posted April 07, 2017 12:01 am

By Scott C. Morgan

Maestro Kirk Muspratt conducts the New Philharmonic at College of DuPage's McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn. Courtesy of Don Hood

The New Philharmonic has announced its 2017-18 season, which will cover a wide range of musical styles in Belushi Performance Hall at the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn.

The season lineup features:

• Mahler's Symphony No. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24.

• "The Best of Broadway: Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber" pops concert with guest soprano Alisa Suzanne Jordheim and tenor Justin Berkowitz singing music from "South Pacific," "The King and I," "Evita" and more at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22.

• Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet "The Nutcracker" in collaboration with von Heidecke Chicago Festival Ballet at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, and 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17.

• New Year's Eve Concerts featuring guest baritone Corey Crider and lots of classic Viennese waltzes and polkas at 2, 5:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31.

• Verdi's tragic opera "La Traviata" featuring guest tenor Scott Ramsay and Glen Ellyn mezzo-soprano Karen Archbold at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28.

• A Beethoven concert "Five Piano Concertos - One Pianist" with guest soloist Wael Farouk at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 7, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 8.

Conductor and music director Kirk Muspratt continues to lead the 40-year-old professional orchestra in residence at College of DuPage. The New Philharmonic was recently named Illinois Council of Orchestras' 2017 Professional Orchestra of the Year.

Season subscriptions are on sale now, and subscribers save up to 20 percent off single ticket prices. Single tickets go on sale in early August. For more information, call (630) 942-4000 or visit atthemac.org.

Egyptian pianist Wael Farouk is the featured soloist with the New Philharmonic for the April 2018 concerts "Beethoven: Five Piano Concertos - One Pianist."

Maestro Kirk Muspratt conducts the New Philharmonic at College of DuPage's McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn. Courtesy of Christian Steiner

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