The Herald, Sharon, PA Published Thursday, March 28, 2002

YOUNGSTOWN

Marsalis, Feltsman headline YSO concerts

Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will host Branford Marsalis, Ani and Ida Kafavian, Vladimir Feltsman and other headliners for its 2002-03 Masterworks series.

The symphony's pops concerts will feature Jose Feliciano and hometown boys Phil Keaggy and Joe Augustine.

All concerts will be at Powers Auditorium, Youngstown.

The Masterworks series opens Oct. 26 with a Mozart program, featuring the Kavafians on the "Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola in E-flat major.

Marsalis, a saxophonist, plays Milhaud and Ibert pieces in a "Best of Paris" program set for Nov. 23.

Steven Lubin and YSO soloists will take front and center for the Jan. 18 show featuring Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos."

Feb. 1 brings an All-Tchaikovsky program featuring Alon Goldstein on the first piano concerto.

Beethoven is spotlighted at the March 8 concert, featuring Joseph Silverstein on the "Violin Concerto in D minor."

Feltsman takes on Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" for a "Russian Rhapsody" performance April 5, 2003.

The season concludes May 3, 2003, with Peter Riberi and a "Three Tenors: Next Generation" concert.

Feliciano, who had hits with "Light My Fire," "Through the Eyes of Love" and "Malaguena," opens the pops series Nov. 2.

Augustine, a pianist from Howland, and the Youngstown Symphony Chorus brighten a holiday program Dec. 7.

The music of Richard Rodgers will fill the Valentine's Day program Feb. 8, and guitarist Keaggy, best known for his Christian instrumentals, and the rock band Glass Harp, performs April 12, 2003.

Tickets: (330) 744-0264 or at the box office. Information: www.youngstownsymphony.com



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