YSO unveils 2012-13 season

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra’s 2012-13 season will include six concerts and will feature the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov in Masterworks performances.

On the Pops side, a rock- fusion concert with vocalist Rob Evan from Trans-Siberian Orchestra will return, while Christian musician Phil Keaggy will return to his hometown for a holiday concert.

Season tickets are on sale. Call the DeYor Performing Arts Center box office at 330-744-0264.

Tickets for individual concerts will go on sale in June.

All concerts begin at 8 p.m. at Powers Auditorium.

The Pops season is as follows:

Sept. 15: Rocktopia, a rock-fusion concert led by YSO Music Director and Conductor Randall Craig Fleischer, with Evans and Darren Thomas.

Dec. 1: Home for the Holidays, a holiday concert with Keaggy, the Youngstown Connection and Singing Star vocal competition winner Natalie Sprouse.

Feb. 9: Symphonic Valentine, a showcase of Gershwin ballads and romantic songs from Broadway, with guest conductor Carl Topilow and vocalists Lisa Vroman and J. Mark McVey.

The Masterworks concerts are:

Oct. 20: Russian music, featuring Van Cliburn piano competition winner Di Wu on Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; and Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave and his Fifth Symphony.

Nov. 17: Mozart’s Violin Concert No. 5 with Bella Hristova, and the YSO with Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2.

April 13: The Sultana’s stories musically depicted in Scheherazade, and Brahm’s Symphony No. 2.