Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra features Strauss, Verdi, and McFerron at upcoming concert

The Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) will
perform on Sunday, March 23, 2014 at the Fine Arts Auditorium at Joliet Junior
College at 4 pm.  Admission is $7 at the
door.

Dr. Lawrence Sisk, professor of music at Lewis University,
will conduct the orchestra in a program that includes Stanford’s Irish Rhapsody
No. 1 and two waltzes by Johann Strauss, Artist’s
Life and On the Beautiful Blue
Danube. The orchestra will also be performing On the Edge, composed for MYSO by Dr. Mike McFerron,
composer-in-residence at Lewis University. 
Mary Payne, clarinet instructor at Lewis University, will be the
featured soloist performing the Polacca
from Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and the Intermezzo from Verdi’s opera, La forza del destino.

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 6-8:30pm at Lewis University. 
Auditions for next season will be held in late August.  Check the

website at www.mysomusic.org
for details and to arrange an audition.