$60 per personCash Bar ~ 5:30 PMDinner ~ 6 PMKankakee Country ClubTopics Discussed: Presentation of the 2024 Dr. Janet V. Leonard “Con Spirito” Award Recipients: Yvonne Chalfant, Barbara Schwark and Jane Veers | Updates from the Symphony Board, the Foundation, the Women's Guild and Youth Symphony | Preview of the 2024-2025 SeasonWe are no longer […]
Featuring Shelby Ryan. Food available, provided by Martinez Tacos.
Featuring Irish and Bluegrass Music with Steve Martin.
Feel free to bring a lawn chair. This is a free event.
Our guest artist from Lyon, France is pianist Matthieu BERGHEAU. He will join the KVSO in a performance of Sergei RACHMANINOV’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program are Edvard GRIEG’s Norwegian Dances, opus 35 and Antonin DVORAK’s Symphony No. 5 in F Major. Join us at 6:15 PM in the auditorium, for a discussion […]
This performance will feature the women of the KVSO Chorus joining the KVSO for Claude DEBUSSY’s Nocturnes. Bookending the Debussy will be Camille SAINT-SAENS’s Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila and Ludwig van BEETHOVEN’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, opus 55 “Eroica” (Heroic).
Deviating slightly from our Music Speaks theme, we will be offering A Baroque Christmas. Our own flute section of Stephanie LUPO & Clara CAPRIOTTI and concertmistress Rebekah COPE-EVERS will be appearing as soloists in J.S. BACH’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major. The KVSO Chorus will perform the entirety of Antonio VIVALDI’s Gloria in D […]
Please join us for a magical evening of great food and fellowship, immediately following our Holiday Concert. Browse the elaborate dessert raffle table of homemade desserts made by the Symphony Women’s Guild members, followed by a scrumptious dinner.The Symphony of Sweets event is sponsored by the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra Women’s Guild. Dinner menu choices […]
Amour (Love) is the theme for our February concert. Cleveland, Ohio-based violinist Andrew SORDS will be joining us for Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY’s Violin Concerto in D Major. Franz Peter SCHUBERT’s Rosamunde Overture and Robert SCHUMANN's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, opus 38, "Spring".
Our 2024-2025 Season Finale! This All-Orchestra program, focused on Light in the form of moving from darkness to light, will again feature the KVSO Chorus. This time, they will join the KVSO for a performance of Elaine HAGENBERG’s Illuminare with texts taken from St. Ambrose, Hildegard von Bingen, Aurelius Clemens, Pope Gregory, The Gospel of […]
