Live narrator, Paris Schutz, will join New Philharmonic during its candlelit performance of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet (Overture-Fantasy) and Prokofiev’s Cinderella Nov. 1 & 2. Maestro Kirk Muspratt. Photo Courtesy of McAninch Arts Center. “Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music,” said Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Music provides solace and inspiration, and New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra in DuPage County, is happy to prove it once again.

This concert program was presented in Naperville on October 17 and in Chicago on October 18. Chicago Sinfonietta, guest conductor Roger Kalia, and guest vocalist Anuradha “Juju” Palakurthi. Photo by Natalia Dagenhart Light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance, that’s the meaning of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. This Friday and Saturday Chicago Sinfonietta lit up Naperville and Chicago with the sounds of Bollywood hits, Taiwanese music, and a Fre