Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra
Opening Night featuring Michelle Lee
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Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Tickets: $13-$16.50
Opening night is a spectacularly colorful evening of audience favorites, featuring violin virtuoso and Decatur native Michelle Lee. Selections include Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Ravel's Tzigane, Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.
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The Planets featuring Gabriel Cabezas
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Tickets: $13-$16.50
Following the performance of “The Planets,” Millikin’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Society of Physics Students will be hosting a special public observation night of stargazing. Weather permitting, audience members will be able to proceed directly from the concert to the Observatory in the Leighty-Tabor Science Center, right next to the Kirkland Fine Arts Center, to see Jupiter, king of the planets and currently the brightest object in the southern sky, along with its four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Millikin astrophysicist Casey Watson will also deliver the evening’s Concert Preview, at 6:45 PM in the Kirkland lecture room, right before the 7:30 concert. Professor Watson’s program, “The Planets: Our Solar System and Beyond,” will include pictures and slides about our solar system as well as planets orbiting other stars. The Concert Preview and post-concert Stargazing are free and open to the public.
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Little Women
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
November 14-15, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
November 16, 2008 - 2:00 p.m.
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Tickets: $16-$19.50
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Holiday Concert
December 13, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Tickets: Adult: $12-$15 Child $6-$10
Bring the entire family to listen to Holiday favorites including Tchaikovsky's Nutrcracker Suite, Berlin's White Christmas, Vaughan Williams' Greensleeves Fantasy, and many more.
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January 24, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Tickets: $16-$19.50
The annual midwinter celebration of young talent, features the winners of Millikin University's Concerto/Aria competition and the premiere of The Premonition of Abraham Lincoln by prolific Illinois composer and Millikin University alum Michael Karasis, with narrator Stephen Fiol.
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Oratorio featuring Sherezade Panthaki
March 28, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Tickets: $16-$19.50
The Millikin Choral Union and soprano Sherezade Panthaki join the Symphony for the sublime Gloria of Francis Poulenc and major works by Berlioz including the Roman Carnival Overture and the Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet.
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Lullaby Concert
April 6, 2009 -6:45 p.m.
Decatur Public Library
Tickets: Free, Tickets Not Required
The Symphony's student string ensemble and BabyTalk present a feww program of music, stories, and fun for families with very small children. Come in your jammies!
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April 25, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Tickets: $16-$19.50
An evening of symphony gems for smaller orchestra, joined by the Opus 24 Choral Ensemble in Vaughan Williams' pastoral masterpiece, Flos Campi.
