Honor the past.
Raise voices together.
Let conviction lead.
Keep memories alive.
Northshore Concert Band’s 2026/27 Season draws memory, belief, belonging, and fate into four sweeping programs where the past speaks, traditions shift, and music becomes a force for what comes next.
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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.
Program to Include
Paul Hindemith
Symphony in B-flat
Eric Ewazen
A Hymn for the Lost and the Living
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite
Mallory Thompson
Artistic Director
Paul Hindemith
Margaret Bonds
Juan Pablo Contreras
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.
Program to include
Carlos Simon
Amen!
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Vichnaya Pamyat from Chernobyl
Robert Sheldon
Lindbergh Variations
Mallory Thompson
Artistic Director
Lifetime of Music Initiative
Carlos Simon
Hildur Guðnadóttir
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.
pROGRAM TO INCLUDE
Charles Ives
Variations on “America”
Lindsay Bronnenkant
The King of Cups from Tarot
Aakash Mittal
Salt March
Robert Taylor
Guest Conductor
Malcolm Arnold
Viet Cuong
Lindsay Bronnenkant
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.
Program to include
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posy
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana
Julie Giroux
Riften Wed
Mallory Thompson
Artistic Director
Percy Grainger
Carl Orff
Helen May Butler