Santa Cecilia Orchestra to Perform ‘Dvorák and Gershwin’

Santa Cecilia Orchestra will perform Dvorák and Gershwin, its next concert of the 2011-2012 season, which will take place at Thorne Hall, in Los Angeles on Sunday February 12, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. 

Conductor Sonia Marie De León de Vega will lead the orchestra performing George Gershwin’s fused jazz with symphonic music with Bryan Pezzone, who returns to SCO’s stage to play Gershwin’s Piano Concerto.  SCO will dazzle the audience with their virtuosity as they close the concert with Dvorák’s greatest romantic work, Symphony No. 7.

SCO is fulfilling its Music is For Everyone mission by offering full orchestra concerts, chamber concerts and its nationally acclaimed Discovering Music Program. 

The concert will take place at Thorne Hall, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, 90041 on Sunday February 12, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.  There will be one performance only of this program. Tickets priced at $26, $20 and $7 (youth, 17 and under) are available by calling the orchestra office at (323) 259-3011 or by visiting Purchase Tickets.

A complete season schedule is available at Season Schedule.