Name: Music by Candlelight
Start: 2024-01-14T15:00:00
Location: First Lutheran Church

Rockford Symphony Orchestra

This concert featuring student musicians is a great way to spend an afternoon and introduce younger family members to an orchestral concert experience.

RSYO Spring Orchestra Concert

Belvidere High School

The season concludes with a jubilant celebration honoring the 250th anniversary of the United States, showcasing American music and its rich and diverse heritage. The evening begins with Jessie Montgomery’s A Hymn for Everyone, a vibrant work that reflects the spirit of unity and shared history. Leonard Bernstein’s powerful Symphony No. 1 (“Jeremiah”) follows, blending bold orchestration with a heartfelt exploration of faith and resilience. Jeff Midkiff’s From the Blue Ridge brings the soul of bluegrass to the concert hall in a thrilling mandolin concerto inspired by Appalachian traditions. The concert concludes with the innovator of the “American Sound,” Aaron Copland, with two movements of his tribute to the American West, Rodeo.

America 250

Coronado Theatre

Join us for an afternoon of delightful music featuring woodwinds and strings in Rockford’s historic First Lutheran Church. Featuring music by Beethoven, exquisitely haunting melodies by Villa-Lobos and more, this afternoon is sure to bring a spot of beauty and magic to a winter afternoon.