Memory & Motion
November 8, 2026 | 3:00 p.m.
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
A galloping fanfare gives way to candlelit remembrance, spiritual conviction, and the monumental architecture of Paul Hindemith’s Symphony in B-flat. Works by Juan Pablo Contreras, Eric Ewazen, and Margaret Bonds offer striking contrasts and an enduring determination to press onward.
Grace & Gathering
February 20, 2027 | 7:30 p.m.
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Rhythm sparks, memory endures, and praise rises to ecstatic heights in works by Zhou Tian, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Carlos Simon. That spirit of communal music-making continues as outstanding young musicians from across Chicagoland join the Band for its celebrated Lifetime of Music program.
Heart & Homeland
April 11, 2027 | 3:00 p.m.
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
What binds us to a place — its songs, its ideals, or the convictions that compel us to shape its future? From classic marches and reinvented patriotic tunes to music of compassion, hope, and peaceful demonstration, this program explores how inherited traditions become personal beliefs and how those beliefs can move communities toward change.
Folk & Fortune
May 30, 2027 | 3:00 p.m.
Deerfield High School
Stories passed down, worlds imagined, and fortunes reversed come vividly to life in music by Helen May Butler, Julie Giroux, Percy Grainger, and Carl Orff. From the brilliance of the American march to English folk song, cinematic fantasy, and the primal force of Carmina Burana, this program celebrates how music carries human experience across time.