2008 Year in Review

Clinton Symphone Programs Scandinavian Music

Music by Scandinavian composers seems appropriate for the winter weather of recent months. The Clinton Symphony Orchestra will play a concert of "Scandinavian Marvels" at 8 p.m. Saturday, February 23 in Centennial Auditorium at Sterling High School. Brian Dollinger, in his first season as Music Director and Conductor of the 54-year-old Symphony, chose the music last summer with faint expectation of the snows and cold to come. Included in the program is the "Holberg Suite" by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and the Second Symphony of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

Special guest and soloist for the evening will be violinist Marcia Henry Liebenow, concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, who teaches violin, viola and chamber music at Bradley University. She will perform Max Bruch's first violin concerto with the orchestra, and will visit school music classes in the area. The visits are made possible by a special grant from Sauk Valley Bank.

Because of the uncertain winter weather, the Symphony has entered into a partnership with Community State Bank to bring a bus along the U.S. Route 30 corridor, from Clinton, through Fulton and Morrison, to the concert in Sterling. The cost to riders will be $5 per person, and reservations can be made through Symphony Board member Marianne Jensen in Clinton at 563-243-5958, with Cheryl Green at the CSB office in Fulton, 815-589-9090; or Audrey Foltz at the Morrison CSB office, 815-772-4011. Complete details are available from any of these contacts.

Concert tickets are available in advance at England Music Center in Clinton, Fitzgerald Pharmacy in Morrison and Grummert's Hardware in Sterling. Maps to Centennial Auditorium are also available at the advance ticket locations. Tickets will also be available at the door of the concert. Adult tickets are $12, with high school and college student tickets at $5. Students through 8th grade are admitted free of charge.

Program notes for the music to be performed and maps to the various venues can be found on the Symphony's website.

Major funding for this concert has been provided by CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

by  Editor, theCity1.com
February 12, 2008