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Metropolitan Youth Symphony to perform Hungarian program
MYSO will perform on May 13, 2018 at 4:00 at the St. Charles Borromeo Convocation Hall in Romeoville.
The Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) will perform on Sunday afternoon May 13, 2018 at 4:00 at the St. Charles Borromeo Convocation Hall on the Romeoville campus of Lewis University (101 Airport Road, Romeoville). Admission is ten dollars cash at the door.
Dr. Lawrence Sisk, professor of music at Lewis University, will conduct the orchestra in a Hungarian program that includes Berlioz’s Hungarian March from the Damnation of Faust, Strauss’s Eljen a Magyar (Hurray for Hungary! Polka) and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. The orchestra will also perform three Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms and Ferenc Erkel’s Himnusz.
Flutist Jennifer Gosack Darwell will perform Doppler’s Hungarian Pastorale Fantasie as MYSO’s featured soloist. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where she also earned a masters degree and an artist diploma in flute performance. A native of Plainfield, Jennifer is an alumna of MYSO and has appeared once before as soloist with the orchestra.
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Founded in 1959 the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra has resided in Will County since 1991. Players in MYSO come from area high schools and middle schools, as well as Lewis University and Joliet Junior College.
MYSO rehearses every Wednesday evening that school is in session from 6:00 to 8:30 at Lewis University. For more concert and audition information, visit www.mysomusic.org.
