Symphony concert to dedicate pipe organ

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will visit Stambaugh Auditorium on Sept. 18 for a concert to dedicate the renovated pipe organ at the historic hall.

Both the YSO and Stambaugh Auditorium also will mark their 85th anniversary at the 4 p.m. concert.

Virtuoso organist David Higgs will accompany the orchestra, and Conductor Randall Craig Fleischer, in Saint Saens’ Symphony No. 7 — popularly known as “the organ symphony” — and the Francis Poulenc concerto for organ, strings and timpani.

Higgs, who is chairman of the organ and historical keyboards department at Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester (NY), also will perform solo.

For tickets to this concert, call the Powers Auditorium box office at 330-744-0264.

Two other upcoming concerts also will feature the pipe organ.

The first will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 9 with organist Thomas Murray.

A family concert, with the silent film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” will begin at 2 p.m Oct. 29.

A children’s Halloween costume party will be part of the event, which will feature organist Todd Wilson.

For tickets, call the Stambaugh box office at 330-259-0555.