Naperville News Digest: Park district sets holiday hours for Thanksgiving weekend; guest organist to perform at DuPage Chorale’s music fest

Park district sets holiday hours for Thanksgiving weekend

Holiday hours have been scheduled for Naperville Park District facilities over the Thanksgiving weekend starting Thursday, Nov. 28.

  • The Fort Hill Activity Center will be open from 6 a.m. to noon Thanksgiving Day and will return to normal hours Friday through Sunday.
  • Both the Springbrook and Naperbrook golf courses and the Sportsman’s Park Trapshooting Range will be closed on Thanksgiving but will have normal operating hours from Friday through Sunday.
  • The Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center will be closed Thanksgiving and open for scheduled programs Friday through Sunday.
  • The Knoch Knolls Nature Center will be closed Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The nature center will be open on Saturday.
Organist Stephen Uhl will be the guest performer Dec. 8 at DuPage Chorale’s “A Festival of Music with Brass and Organ” at College of DuPage’s Belushi Performance Hall inside the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn. (Supplied photo)

Guest organist to perform at DuPage Chorale’s music fest

Guest organist Stephen Uhl will perform with the DuPage Chorale at its “A Festival of Music with Brass and Organ” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at College of DuPage’s Belushi Performance Hall inside the McAninch Arts Center on the school’s Glen Ellyn campus.

The program features Daniel Pinkham’s “Christmas Cantata,” Gweneth Walker’s “Every Life Shall Be a Song,” Nathan Zullinger’s “Look to This Day,” and selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Trevor Weston and Henry Purcell.

Uhl is a Chicago native and acclaimed musician who completed his artist diploma in piano performance at Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He and violinist Brian Ostrega released their first album, “50/50,” in 2020.

Tickets are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors and $7 for students. For more information, go to www.atthemac.org or call 630-942-4000.

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