Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor Laureate Carmon DeLeone will take the baton again for the concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Ozinga Chapel, 6601 West College Drive, Palos Heights.
The concert will be the first time DeLeone has conducted for IPO since May 2011. He spent 25 years prior to that as the IPO music director.
The program will include Mozart’s “Symphony No. 35,” Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” and Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 4.”
Pianist Michael Chertock will be featured. He has performed as a concert soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Montreal and Toronto Symphonies, the Dallas Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the State Symphony Orchestra of Moscow.
Al Jackson will host a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m. that also will feature IPO musicians Emily Lewis Mantell and Marilyn Boureouis, who will discuss the IPO’s history under DeLeone’s tenure and provide perspective on the works to be performed during the concert.
