'Steel City' will highlight Dana orchestra concert

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Dana Symphony Orchestra will present a concert titled “Beethoven in the Steel City” at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Stambaugh Auditorium. Tickets are $5 ($4 for students and seniors) and can be purchased at the door or in advance from the Stambaugh box office.

The 52-member orchestra will be under the baton of newly appointed conductor Stephen L. Gage, who has served as guest conductor many times during his tenure at Youngstown State University.

Heather Johnson will be the graduate conductor, and new Dana faculty member Joseph Kromholz will be featured violin soloist.

Kromholz has served as concertmaster of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. He previously performed in the Charleston Symphony, the New York String Orchestra, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

The concert will open with “Steel City Overture” by Virginia-based composer Anthony O’Toole, who wrote the work in 2013 for a special concert given by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Other selections include Darius Milhaud’s chamber orchestra masterwork, Creation du la Monde, Op. 81a; Camille Saint Saens’ classic work for violin, Introduction and Rondo Cappricioso; Pablo de Sarasate’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso; and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21.