Special to The Dispatch
GILROY
– South Valley Symphony will open its 30th concert season
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Gavilan College theater, 5055 Santa
Teresa Blvd.
Special to The Dispatch
GILROY– South Valley Symphony will open its 30th concert season Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Gavilan College theater, 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd.
Music Director/
Conductor Henry Mollicone has selected a program consisting of operatic arias by Verdi, Puccini and Mozart.
Featured vocalists Karen McConachie, soprano, and Michael Morris, baritone, will join the orchestra in several operatic arias from the operas “Rigoletto,” “La Traviata,” “La Rondine” and more.
Individual tickets are priced at $12 adults, $10 seniors over 55, and $7 for students and are available at Snappy Photo, California Music Company and Porcella’s Music in Gilroy.
Season tickets will be available at Gavilan College box office the day of performance at $60 for adults, $50 seniors and $35 students age 12 to 18. Children under 12 accompanied by a paid adult admission are free. For more information call 847-1441.
The San Jose State University Symphony Orchestra also plans to make some music with its gala fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the School of Music and Dance Concert Hall in San Jose.
Conducting the concert will be Janet M. Averett, a member of the SJSU faculty since 1986. Averett founded the ongoing South Bay Clarinet Choir and conducted the San Jose Wind Symphony in 1997.
The concert will feature orchestral favorites “Symphony No. 104
‘London’ ” by Haydn, “Peter and the Wolf” by Prokofieff and “Jupiter” from The Planets by Holst. Professor Joseph Frank will narrate the show.
Tickets to the symphony show are $5 for students and $7 for general admission. For more information call 924-4673.
