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The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra closes its 39th concert season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7, with its spring concert, “The Majesty of Mahler,” in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. A free pre-concert lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Led by Music Director and Conductor Linc Smelser, the...

Singers in the DeKalb Festival Chorus will present its spring concert, “HOME,” at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 9. The concert, which takes place at First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St., will feature “Down in the Valley,” a folk opera created by German composer Kurt Weill and librettist Arnold Sundgaard. Additional pieces will showcase the...

Northern Illinois University choruses will join with those of DeKalb and Sycamore high schools, the DeKalb Festival Chorus, Penguin Project and Stagecoach Players for a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The program, “Make Our Garden Grow,” was initiated by Professor Eric Johnson, NIU director of choral activities, as...

The sound of choirs, carols, brass and percussion will once again echo through the halls of the Music Building when the NIU Choral Department hosts their 17th annual holiday concert. Featuring the world premiere of “The Lands the See the Sun Arise” by DeKalb composer Tim Blickhan, the concert will be held in the Boutell Memorial...

The DeKalb Festival Chorus is welcoming Steven Grives as its new director for the 2014-2015 season. Grives joins DFC as the sixth music director in the chorus’s four-decade history. He replaces Seth Houston, who has accepted an out-of-state position. The chorus invites interested singers to join DFC this fall by attending the first rehearsal on...

The DeKalb Festival Chorus will present its fall concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23. “This Shining Night” will take listeners on a journey from the darkness of the fading year to the promise of renewal. The concert will feature amazing music by Beethoven, Brahms, Copeland, Lauridsen and Gjielo. It will focus around Gjielo’s dynamic Dark Night...

Do you love to sing and are you looking for a creative diversion? The DeKalb Festival Chorus, conducted by Seth Houston, is looking for new voices. Two exciting concert programs are planned for the upcoming year. The fall concert, “This Shining Night” takes us on a journey from the darkness of the fading year to...

The DeKalb Festival Chorus will perform its spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in the NIU Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. A pre-concert lecture will take place at 2:30 p.m. Sunday’s concert centers on Joseph Haydn’s late masterpiece, the Lord Nelson Mass. It will feature a chamber orchestra and four great soloists...

Members of the DeKalb Festival Chorus will perform their holiday concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. The concert will take place at Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. John, 26555 Brickville Road in Sycamore. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door. The concert features beautiful works by J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Ola Gjielo...

The CSA Children’s Choir performs twice this holiday season. At 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, the choir performs during the NIU Holiday Concert in the Concert Hall. The children’s choir shares the stage with the NIU choirs, the NIU Philharmonic and the DeKalb Festival Chorus. There is a fee for this concert. On Wednesday, Dec. 12,...

The DeKalb Festival Chorus, directed by Amy Gatschenberger, will present a selection of opera choruses at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 6, in the NIU Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Guest soloists Jessica Vadney (soprano) and Christopher Joyner (tenor) will join the performance, which also will feature guest artists William Koehler on piano, the NIU...

The DeKalb Festival Chorus will present Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in D Minor, Opus 48, during its Sunday, Nov. 20, concert. Guest artists William Crosbie, and soloists Orna Arania (soprano) and Julian Rojas (baritone) will join in the performance. In addition to the Requiem, the chorus will sing pieces by Mendelssohn, Haydn and Rutter; Crosbie and...