ESO Opening Concerts Sept 17 & 18 Feature Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Once Called "Too Difficult to Play"

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra (ESO), the 2016 Illinois Professional Orchestra of the Year, opens its 2016-17 season September 17 and 18 with music director Andrew Grams conducting an all-Russian program that features Shostakovich's Festive Overture, Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances and Tchaikovsky's...