Metropolitan Youth Symphony performs an All-French Fall Concert

The Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) will perform on Sunday October 30, 2016 at 4:00pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium at Joliet Junior College. Admission is ten dollars at the door.

Dr. Lawrence Sisk, professor of music at Lewis University, will conduct the orchestra in a program that includes Georges Bizet’s two suites from the opera Carmen, Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Marionette,” and Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane. Harpist Nichole Luchs, an applied music instructor at Lewis University, will be the featured soloist in the Debussy.

Founded in 1959 the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra has resided in Will County since 1991. Players in MYSO come from Lewis University and Joliet Junior College, and from area high schools and middle schools. Maestro Sisk is celebrating 25 years as Music Director of MYSO.

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.