News from Sugar Creek Symphony & Song

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Media inquiries should be directed to John Whitman, communications director for Sugar Creek Symphony & Song
Tel: (815) 432-1111 / Cell: (917) 304-7015 / Fax: (815) 432-9962

NEWSLETTERS: April 2005
PRESS RELEASES: 2007 season / 2006 season / 2005 season / 2004 season / 2003 season
SEASON BROCHURES: 2005 season / 2004 season / 2003 season
IN THE NEWS: Sugar Creek Symphony & Song
IN THE NEWS: Artistic Director Helen Todd

PRESS RELEASES (2007-2008 SEASON)

• Third Annual Singer Auction Announced (2/18/08)
• Sugar Creek Plans Christmas Festivities (11/14/07)

PRESS RELEASES (2006-2007 SEASON)

• Sugar Creek Announces Schedule for Its Fifth Season (10/09/06)
• Just in Time for Christmas, Sugar Creek to Raffle $1,000 Travel Voucher (10/09/06)

PRESS RELEASES (2005-2006 SEASON)

• A Preview of Things to Come at Sugar Creek's August Opera Fest (December 2005)
• Why wasn't there an opera in 2006? (January 2006)

PRESS RELEASES (2004-2005 SEASON)

• Sugar Creek announces 2005 season (December 2004)

PRESS RELEASES (2003-2004 SEASON)

• Sugar Creek Offers Free and Discounted Student Tickets (July 23, 2004)
• Air France and Sugar Creek Symphony & Song Team Up to Give Away Round Trip Tickets to Paris (July 23, 2004)
• More Than 50 Illinois Artists Cast for Summer Opera and Classical Music Festival (May 28, 2004)
• Sugar Creek Announces an International Cast for its Summer Opera and Classical Music Festival (May 28, 2004)
• Sugar Creek Announces Fundraising Events for Summer Opera Festival (March 5, 2004)
• Sugar Creek Announces Schedule for 2004 Festival (January 7, 2004)

• The Fields are Alive with the Sound of Opera: With the Economy Singing Sour Notes, an Illinois Farm Town Turns to Opera for Revival (August 2, 2003)
• Rural Illinois Town Turns to Opera in Search for Economic Revival (July 16, 2003)
• Ticket Sales Robust for Inaugural Season (July 14, 2003)
• SCSS announces inaugural season; Tickets to go on sale June 16 (June 13, 2003)
• Artistic Director Receives National Media Attention (May 29, 2003)
• Grammy-nominated artist to perform in Watseka (Feb. 21, 2003)
• Watseka Seeks to Revitalize Town by Hosting World-Class Music Festival (Jan. 31, 2003)
• Plans for a Summer Music Festival to be Unveiled (Dec. 16, 2002)

SEASON BROCHURES

• 2005 Brochure (pdf, 662 kB)
• 2004 Brochure (pdf, 1.7 megs)
• 2003 Brochure (pdf, 96 kB)

IN THE NEWS: Sugar Creek Symphony & Song

• These Opera Fans Get Ready for 'La Boheme' (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL, 7/27/03)
• Around the Region: Symphony promoter talks fest (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL, 5/19/03)
• They seek to bolster the arts one town at a time (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL, 3/10/03)
• Community introduced to performers (Times-Republic, Watseka, IL, March 10, 2003)
• Standards, classics featured in Watseka, March 8-9 (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankee, IL 3/9/03)
• Music festival stage director visits Watseka (Times-Republic, Watseka, IL, March 7, 2003)
• Watseka boasts splendid weekend (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL 3/2/03)
• Television news story focuses on local music festival (Times-Republic, Watseka, IL, Feb. 26, 2003)
• Grammy nominee coming to Watseka for concert (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL, 2/24/03)
• Sugar Creek Symphony & Song planning performances (Times-Republic, Watseka, IL, Jan. 28, 2003)
• Watseka grads eye hosting hometown music fest (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL, 12/19/02)
• Watseka song fest a certainty (Kankakee Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL, 12/24/02

IN THE NEWS: Helen Todd, artistic director
of Sugar Creek Symphony & Song

• Artistic Director Receives National Media Attention (May 29, 2003)
• Opera: Feminist Qualms in Gilead (The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2003)
• Ruders' Opera Captures Power, Poignancy of 'Handmaid's Tale' (USA Today, May 12, 2003)
• Eerie Echo of Present in Futurist Fantasy (The New York Times, May 14, 2003