Elgin Symphony League

08/28/2026

The Elgin Symphony League members promoted the ESO at What Makes Elgin Tick, a community & volunteer fair promoting services and organizations to Elgin and surrounding communities.
Pictured L-R: Lee Ann Clark, Pat Sekowski, Maggie Beyer, John Pilsits, Larry Dobbs

07/05/2026

07/02/2026

The ESO Brass and Percussion put on a wonderful Patriotic concert Wednesday night. We appreciated it being brought indoors with the heat and being the popular draw that it is, it was standing room only by the time it started. Some of the League Members that were there gathered for a quick pic. It was fun to touch base mid-season off and share in this beautiful music!

06/22/2026

Celebrate our country’s 250th Birthday with a lovely evening listening to our ESO musicians! League members will be sitting together so bring a lawn chair!

04/26/2026

Our final General Meeting of the 2025-2026 Season is scheduled for Thursday, April 30, at the Evangelical Covenant Church 1565 Larkin Ave., Elgin. Come and enjoy our last luncheon together this season with your fellow League members, friends, and all who love the ESO! This is your last chance this season to come see what we are about. We hope you can come!
This month’s General Meeting will feature our very own ESO Principal Flutist, Jean Bishop! Jean will share her musical journey and experiences with us. During this meeting we will also be celebrating Jean’s ESO retirement. Please come and wish Jean a happy and joyous retirement!
Whether you want to come to learn more about the league or just to enjoy Jean’s presentation, you are welcome to join us! Please let us know you are coming.

04/23/2026

For the Elgin Hispanic Network general meeting this week Pat Sekowski and Maggie Beyer raffled off ESO tickets and created interest in the Elgin Symphony League!

04/21/2026

Some pics of our recent General meeting (thank you Lee Ann Clark for photos/video) and hostessing pics of the April Sunday concert.

04/21/2026

Our recent General meeting on April 9 was pretty special! We were delighted to have ESO Timpanist, Robert “Bobby” Everson, entertain us!
Diane Campbell talked about the upcoming Gala on May 16 and how much fun it is to attend.
Do you love attending the concerts? Why not attend one of our General meetings and learn how you can become more involved, meet some really nice people, and get to learn more about the musicians? We have one more for this season on April 30. Bobby is such a fun guy besides being a wonderful musician. Those of us who work downstairs during a concert, preparing their intermission snacks, get a lot of one on one time chatting with musicians like Bobby. It seriously enriches the concert experience when you have that connection to them as individuals. If you would like to observe what we do as an orchestra hostess volunteer, contact Pat at (847)293-3330 to arrange a tour. It’s something that is fun to experience! Next season we’ll be looking for additional help- it might be just the activity you’ve been needing!

04/01/2026

Happy April 1st!