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The Thrill of the Orchestra

Saturday, October 4, 2025 | 7:30 p.m.

Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G Major
RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Stephen Alltop, Music Director and Conductor
Timothy Ehlen, piano

The 66th season of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra opens with three blockbuster works. The festivities commence with Johannes Brahms’ ebullient Academic Festival Overture. University of Illinois faculty member Timothy Ehlen brings his virtuosity to Maurice Ravel’s splashy Piano Concerto. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s final composition for orchestra, the Symphonic Dances, is a brilliant work that also held great personal meaning for the composer. Hearing this masterpiece live is a thrill that audiences remember for a lifetime.

TICKETS go on sale to the public August 13 at krannertcenter.com
$45 standard/$40 senior/$10 youth, student of any age

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