All those components will be in play when the Elgin Symphony Orchestra presents its “Beethoven’s Eroica” concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5 and 3 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 traced a progression “from darkness to light,” he added, while the overture, written for Beethoven’s political prison break opera “Fidelio,” represented the ...