Sinfonia da Camera announces the 2009-10 season.

Join Sinfonia da Camera as we embark on a second quarter-century, exploring literary and musical themes from yesterday and today.

The season opens with a musical homage to the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare.  From a myriad of opera, symphonic, ballet, and film music on Shakespearean subjects, our first concert dips into some of the best from across the ages, from Tchaikovsky to Porter. November brings the evocative El Salón México of Copland, the ennobling Eroica Symphony by Beethoven, and two contemporary pieces, highlighting the talents of Sinfonia players Henry Skolnick and Jim Pugh. A winter highlight is Tchaikovsky's beloved The Nutcracker with CU Ballet.

The year 2010 marks the 200th birthdays of two of the greatest Romantic composers, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann. Sinfonia honors their contribution to the music world and will be presenting Schumann's Four Symphonies and works of Chopin this spring and the following fall, during Sinfonia’s 27th season.  The February concert features Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, and Handel’s Dixit Dominus with guest conductor Fred Stoltzfus and the University of Illinois Chamber Singers. Romance blossoms in March with Debussy’s L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. We conclude the 26th season of Sinfonia with a new departure—a blockbuster rush-hour concert at 5:30 p.m. with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

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Sinfonia da Camera appears under the auspices of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.