majestic bruckner

What’s Playing

Anton Bruckner Psalm 150
Anton Bruckner Os justi meditabitur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 36 (“Linz”)
Anton Bruckner Locus iste
Anton Bruckner Ave Maria
Anton Bruckner Te Deum

Who’s Performing

Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Alltop Music Director and Conductor
Apollo Chorus of Chicago
Michelle Areyzaga, Soprano

Tetyana Vakhnovska, Mezzo-soprano

Martin Luther Clark, Tenor

Bill McMurray, Bass-baritone

What You'll Hear

What’s Interesting

• 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. A remarkably humble composer (a leading music critic at the time called him “half genius, half simpleton”), he is best known for his symphonies and sacred music.
• Bruckner’s music, however, is anything but humble. His works are often punctuated with expansive, organ-like walls of sound. The scene from Back to the Future when Marty McFly blasts himself backward through a wall comes to mind...
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, also an Austrian composer, arrived in the city of Linz and found himself in something of a pickle: A local count, Count Thun, unexpectedly insisted the young composer give a concert while in town. Mozart, unprepared but unphased, composed a brand-new symphony (nicknamed “Linz”) in just four days for the occasion.

Apollo Chorus of Chicago

Anton Bruckner