John P. Paynter, conductor. Celebrate the Fourth of July with this annual Summer Band concert. A limited number of complimentary tickets for seniors are available one week prior to concerts. Mary Alice Stollak and Don Owens, conductors. The concert will feature choral works by Robert Harris, Samuel Barber and Vincent Persichetti, plus the National Emblem March by E. E. Bagley and Symphony for Winds and Percussion by Joseph Downing.
Admission is free.
Mitchell Arnold, conductor. Composed of students and Chicago-area guest musicians, the Summer Orchestra will perform Rossini's Overture to Semiramide, Mozart's Symphony no. Symphony no. 2 in D Major, written during his summer vacation in southern Austria. Constantine Orbelian, conductor. Founded in 1988 to mark the 30th anniversary of the first United States Soviet cultural exchange, the young musicians of ARYO have achieved worldwide recognition.