Dundee Township Public Library hosts music lecture

Join other music lovers on Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Dundee Township Public Library when concert lecturer Daniel Maki, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, presents "From Classical to Jazz, or Why Does the Devil Have All the Good Notes?", an intriguing program on how culture influences composers and their music.

Beginning at 2 p.m., Maki, a member of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra's artistic staff, will explore various musical compositions and trace the evolution of classical and religious pieces to jazz and other contemporary major genres of music. He will play selections on a digital keyboard as well as from recorded works.

Maki, a longtime member of the music faculty of Elgin Community College and currently a professor of music theory and coordinator of the ECC Conservatory, has served as the orchestra's program annotator and concert lecturer for over two decades. He has also lectured and written program notes for many other organizations, including the Woodstock Mozart Festival, the Chicago Youth Orchestra, the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Lyon and Healy Concert Series and for Chicago's Music of the Baroque.

In addition, two free concert tickets and lunches will be raffled off, courtesy of the Elgin Symphony League.

The program is free and open to the public. It will be held in the library's lower level meeting room. Reservations are recommended and can be made online at dundeelibrary.info; by phone at (847) 428-3661, ext. 308, or in person at the library, 555 Barrington Ave. East Dundee.