WFMT

While packing your picnic supplies for the holiday weekend, tune your radio to WFMT 98.7 to hear the broadcast of a recent Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra performance titled “Lincoln Portrait — A Bicentennial Musical Tribute: 1809-2009” at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 4, and repeated at 10 p.m. Thursday, July 9. The recording also will be broadcast via live streaming at www.wfmt.org.

The March 15 concert, led by EYSO music director and youth symphony conductor Randal Swiggum, features narration of Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” by Illinois Circuit Court Chief Judge F. Keith Brown (son of media personalities Betty and Floyd Brown of Elgin).