The Champaign-Urbana community packed Foellinger Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in anticipation of a visit from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Thursday evening. The program was highlighted by works from Russian-born composers, ranging from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s dramatic and intense “Piano Concerto No. 1” to an ethereal “Prelude to ‘Khovanshchina.’” .
They’ll take romance
Married theater artists Michael Ingersoll (“Jersey Boys,” PBS’ “Under the Streetlamp”) and Angela Ingersoll (Joseph Jefferson Award-winner for “End of the Rain.