2011–2012 Season

A Season of Discovery
Featuring Hershey Felder & Amit Peled

Ars Viva! gives five Sunday afternoon concerts (3:00 p.m.) at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, Illinois with the programming for which Maestro Heatherington is famous.

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“With about 20 current and former members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra forming the core of his orchestra, the performances bespeak a high degree of professional polish. Sunday’s concert reflected well on the close rapport these players enjoy with Heatherington.” “He inspired an alert and bracingperformance from his orchestra. Telling details such as the soft, floating chords for flutes and bassoons, the strings’ running eighth-note patterns, the wild build- ups of brass and the chillingly detached ending were integrated into a coherent, convincing whole.”
—John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

“It was touching that one of Mozart’s greatest hits, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, opened the program. This overly familiar work for string orchestra can be a humdrum affair for music lovers who have heard it countless times. But with the children [from the Music for Life program] happily applauding after each movement, it was impossible not to hear the music with fresh ears. Mozart’s melodies bristled with color and energy.”
—Wynne Delacoma, Chicago Classical Review

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