Conductor Maurice Cohn leads the orchestra in a program featuring Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Gabriela Ortiz.
Galesburg native Maurice Cohn, currently Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony, returns home to conduct the opening concert of the Knox-Galesburg Symphony. The featured work for the evening will be Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, the symphonic suite inspired by the story of a young woman who manages to save her own life by her skillful weaving of spellbinding stories from the legendary collection of tales known as One Thousand and One Nights (or “Arabian Nights”). The program will also include the first movement of Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, followed by Antrópolis written in 2019 by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz. This piece is based on the composer’s personal memories of her visits to Mexico City’s legendary dance halls and nightclubs (“antró”) with its high energy urban music and nightlife.
Program:
-Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1st Movement (“Allegro”)
– Ortiz: Antrópolis
– Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Event Details:
– Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026
– Time: 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
– Venue: The Orpheum Theatre, 57 S. Kellogg Street, Galesburg, IL
-Tickets: $30–$35, available at galesburgorpheum.org, by calling the Orpheum Theater at
(309) 342-2299, or by visiting the Orpheum Theater’s box office Tuesday through Friday
between 10am and 2pm, or just before the concert.
The Knox-Galesburg Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1951, is celebrating its 75th season –providing our community with orchestra concerts that inspire, move, and entertain people of all ages.
***Courtesy of The Orpheum Theatre***
