This Field Trip opportunity to attend our annual Youth Concert will explore the immigrant experience through the music of Boyer's Ellis Island: The Dream of America. Recommended for grade levels five and up.
This concert celebrates Rockford’s long history of welcoming immigrants, and the heritage shared by these newcomers that has created Rockford’s own unique culture.
Chamber Concerts offer audiences the opportunity to hear from RSO musicians about the music on the program and how it inspires them. Brilliant Brass will feature modern music for brass quintet by a variety of composers, centered around Michael Tilson Thomas’s Street Song.
Join us as Conductor Ben Firer speaks with Guest Artist Joel Baer about his experiences, and what he is most excited about for the concert. RSVP requested. Lunch is available for purchase.
Contemporary video games are accompanied by the cinematic soundtracks we traditionally associate with movies, adding to the symphonic canon of our time. Joining the RSO with Big Band interpretations of “vintage” video games is Rockfordian Joel Baer’s Blueshift Big Band.
Join us as Music Director Yaniv Attar speaks with Conductor of the Nielsen Chorale Marti Bein about her experiences, and what she is most excited about for the concert. RSVP requested. Lunch is available for purchase.
The season comes to a triumphant close with Beethoven’s joyous immortal classic, Symphony No. 9, performed by the Nielsen Chorale, world-class soloists, and your Rockford Symphony Orchestra.
