By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily
News
The Rio Hondo Symphony will open its 79th season
of free Sunday afternoon concerts on Sept. 25 when Music Director Kimo Furumoto
leads a program of Rossini’s William Tell
Overture, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Alison Edwards as soloist. The Eroica is the third segment in
Furumoto’s plan to perform all nine Beethoven symphonies with the RHS. The year
2011 marks the bicentennial of Liszt’s death.
Other concerts in the series:
Oct. 30:
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni; Bartok:
Romanian Folk Dances; Dvorak: Czech Suite.
Feb. 5, 2012:
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little
Night Music); Bach: Air on the G
String; Vivaldi: Winter from
The Four Seasons; Holst: St. Paul Suite; Tchaikovsky: Serenade
for Strings.
May 6: Richard
Rogers: selections from Victory at Sea; Reinhold
Gliere: Russian Sailor’s Dance; Debussy:
La Mer. This program will also
present the winners of the orchestra’s Young Artists Competition held in Feb.
2012.
All concerts are in Whittier High School’s Vic Lopez
Auditorium.
Information: www.riohondosymphony.org
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