Flights of Fancy

by rcochicago

Sunday May 18, 2025, 4 p.m. at Queen of Apostles, 2330 W. Sunnyside, Chicago

Program:

Overture from Treemonisha, Words & Music by Scott Joplin, adapted, arranged and orchestrated by T.J. Anderson

Children’s Corner (Le coin des Enfants) by Claude Debussy

  1. Doctor Gradus as Parnassum
  2. Jumbo’s Lullaby (Berceuse des Elephants)
  3. Serenade for the Doll (Serenade a la Poupee)
  4. The Snow is Dancing (La Neige Danse)
  5. The Little Shepherd (Le Petit Berger)
  6. Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk

Idyll (1901), by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Edited by Rotem Weinberg

Suite, Op 39 by Maurice Moszkowski

  1. Allegro molto e brioso
  2. Allegretto giojoso
  3. Intermezzo (Allegretto con moto)
  4. Perpetuum mobile (Vivace)

Eli Chen, Principal Conductor and Richard Corrigan, Music Director

General Info:

— Concerts are free to attend, but consider a cash donation at the door

— Please stay for a post-concert reception with the musicians and RCO fans

— Street parking is available and there is a parking lot on the northwest corner of Sunnyside and Western. 

Accessibility information: The concert will take place in the lower level of the Queen of Apostles Church. There are three steps up to the building, and ten stairs down to the lower level. There is a ramp on the exterior and an elevator/lift down to the lower level. Please ask if you need assistance. There are bathrooms on the lower level as well. 

Thank you for your support of the RCO!

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