Celebrate Youth With The Symphony Of Oak Park & River Forest

Press release from the Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest:

March 18, 2022

The Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest features three young soloists on Sunday, March 27 at 4 p.m. at Concordia University’s Chapel of Our Lord in River Forest.

Concerto Competition winner Elinor Detmer begins the program with Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy. Emmie Guo and Freya Pang continue with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos in E-flat Major.

The program concludes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade featuring Concertmaster John Gerson.

Parking is free in the garage at Thomas and Bonnie Brae.

A preconcert conversation begins at 3:00. The Symphony celebrates its 90th anniversary this season as well as 25 years with Music Director Jay Friedman.

Tickets are $30 ($27 when ordered online), and students through college are admitted free of charge. Everyone in attendance must show proof of vaccination and wear a mask while in attendance.

Tickets for a link to the recorded concert are $15 per household.

For tickets, go to SymphonyOPRF.org.

For more information, call 708-218- 2648 or email theSymphonyOPRF@gmail.com.

This program is supported in part by the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the Oak Park Area Arts Council, and the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation.

This press release was produced by the Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest. The views expressed here are the author's own.