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2023–2024 Concert Season

SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2023
Don Pasquale

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Rossini: La Scala di Seta Overture
Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4

HOLIDAY CONCERT — 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2023

SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2024
Boulogne: Symphony No. 2
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto  
— Sarah Carrillo, trumpet
Mozart: Symphony No. 41

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2024
Brahms Requiem   
with Elmhurst Choral Union 

2021–2022 Season

November 7—Stravinsky: Suite for Small Orchestra
Copland: Letter from Home
Respighi: Gil Uccelli
Still: Darker America
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1

December 4—Holiday Concert

January 23—Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Farrenc: Symphony No. 3

April 24—Beethoven: Hallelujah Chorus
Mozart: Symphony No. 31
Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate
Mozart: Coronation Mass

2020–2021 Season

August 31—Beethoven: Hallelujah Chorus

November 6—Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

December 3—Holiday Concert

January 22—William Grant Still: Darker America
Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 1
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 4

March 26—Gabriela Lena Frank: Andean Elegy
Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 1

Videos
 

Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra, October 2020

This concert was the first of a few to occur during the COVID pandemic in an effort to continue offering performances while keeping safety the uppermost concern. These concerts presented pieces involving few players and almost no audience.

This October 18, 2020, concert, led by Music Director, Dr. Timothy Semanik, comprised two works:

  • Giovanni-Battista Sammartini:  Symphony in F Major, J-C 32

  • Aaron Copland:  Appalachian Spring (original instrumentation)

 

SCCO Holiday Concert — December 4, 2021

The Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra offers a free concert early each December as part of the La Grange Holiday Walk.  The orchestra was led on this occasion by its Music Director, Dr. Timothy Semanik.  The repertoire performed—comprising new pieces and old favorites—was as follows:

  • Traditional; Good, arranger:  O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Tormé & Wells; Lowden, arranger:  The Christmas Song
  • Vaughan Williams; Wagner, arranger:  Vaughan Williams Christmas
  • Scheer; Fry, arranger:  Christmas Once More
  • Gruber; David and Custer, arrangers:  Stille Nacht
  • Anderson:  Sleigh Ride
  • Adam; Custer, arranger:  O Holy Night
  • Cahn & Styne; Brubaker, arranger:  The Christmas Waltz
  • Martin & Blane; Whitney, arranger:  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  • Traditional; Good, arranger:  We Wish You a Merry Christmas
     

January 23, 2022

  • Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
  • Farrenc: Symphony No. 3O