Symphony Performs Rarely-Heard Masterpieces

The Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest performs a program of rarely-heard gems on Sunday, February 19, 4 pm at Concordia University’s Chapel in River Forest.

Soprano Nathalie Colas is featured in Ravel’s Shéhérazade. Violist Uli Widmaier is soloist in Hindemith’s Trauermusik and Vaughan Williams’s Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra. The program concludes with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 5. Professor of Music and Associate Conductor Maurice Boyer leads the award-winning orchestra.

A pre-concert lecture begins at 3 p.m. Tickets are $30 ($27 if ordered online by February 18), and students through college are admitted free of charge. To order tickets, visit SymphonyOPRF.org. For more information, email TheSymphonyOPRF@gmail.com or call 708-218-2648.

This concert is sponsored in part by The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Oak Park Area Arts Council.