A Grand Tour

What’s Playing

FLORENCE PRICE Concert Overture No. 1

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Romance

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Odelette

FRANÇOIS BORNE Fantasy on Themes from Bizet’s Carmen

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”)

Who’s Performing

Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Alltop Music Director and Conductor
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Flute

Bea Sjostrom Violin, 2024 Stanger Young Artist Competition Winner

What’s Interesting

• American, French, Spanish and Italian influences combine to make a delightful afternoon of music!
• Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, principal flutist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, makes his solo debut with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra on this program.
• Opening with the Concert Overture No. 1 by Florence Price, the first woman to have a composition played by a major American orchestra (the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), the concert concludes with Felix Mendelssohn’s fiery Italian Symphony — written when the composer was just 24 years old!
  

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

Flute