New Worlds — Lake County Symphony Orchestra 2026-27 Season Opener

Season packages available for the full four-concert Mainstage series. Every great journey starts with a single step into the unknown — and this season, LCSO takes that step four different ways. New Worlds opens with Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus, the myth of fire stolen from the gods and given to humanity: creation itself as a season-opening fanfare. From there we travel to a genuinely new world for most audiences — the overture of Louise Farrenc, a 19th-century composer whose music is only now getting the hearing it always deserved. Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture carries us to the wind and spray of a Scottish sea cave he visited as a young traveler, and we close with the world Beethoven himself was just discovering: his own voice, in the confident, forward-looking Symphony No. 1. Three composers, four kinds of discovery — mythic, historical, geographic, and personal. It’s the perfect way to open a season built on possibility.

Tickets:  Adults $30 | Students (w/ID) $10 | Children (5 and under) Free CLC Box Office: (847) 543-2300 Get Your Tickets

PROGRAM: (subject to change)

Beethoven — Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43

Louise Farrenc — Overture No. 1 in E minor, Op. 23

Mendelssohn — The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26

Beethoven — Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21