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York Orchestra Annual Concert is Thursday at Baker Auditorium

York orchestras perform with the Illinois State University Symphony.

York High School Cadet, Concert and Symphony orchestras, under the direction of Ray Ostwald, will perform with the Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at 355 W. St. Charles Road.
 
The combined York Cadet Orchestra and ISU Symphony will open the program with a salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein, which features familiar melodies from classic the musicals "Oklahoma," "The Sound of Music," "South Pacific," "The King and I" and "Carousel." The combined York Concert Orchestra and ISU Symphony will present a medley of orchestral music featured in classic Bugs Bunny cartoons, including famous melodies of Johannes Brahms, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner.
 
The combined York Symphony Orchestra and ISU Symphony will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) with a performance of his powerful tone poem, Les Preludes, along with the energetic Farandole, from Georges Bizet’s L'Arlésienne Suite.
 
The ISU Symphony will also perform Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol and Emmanuel Chabrier’s España.
 
This concert is open to the public. For information, call (630) 617-2462.


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