Guest Soloist Yutaka Kono The Kingsville Symphony Orchestra will present its spring concert on Sunday, April 11, at 3 p.m. in Jones Auditorium 855 N. Armstrong, on the TAMUK campus. The concert honors area medical professionals. The guest conductor will be Gary Garner. Guest soloist is Yutaka Kono.

Continuing this season’s theme, “Bach to the Future,” the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major will be featured. The other works on the program include Verdi’s overture to his opera La forza del destino, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s popular Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and Carlos Chavez’s symphonic poem Sinfonia India. Dr. Kono, assistant professor of music at TAMUK, will present a contemporary piece, Concerto for Tuba by American composer Eric Ewazen.

The program will be conducted by maestro Dr. Gary Garner, who served for nearly forty years as director of bands and symphony orchestra at West Texas State University. During his tenure there his symphonic band performed twice at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Among his many honors, he was named Texas bandmaster of the year and received the prestigious Minnie Piper Stevens Award. He will talk about the upcoming concert for attendees, starting at 2 p.m. inside the auditorium.

All area medical professionals will be admitted free to the concert and will be recognized there.

Tickets are $30, $20, $10, and $5. They may be purchased at the Kingsville Visitors Center at Corral and Hwy 77, at the Kingsville Chamber of Commerce on E. King, or at the TAMUK music department on campus. Children 12 and under are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. For more information, call 593-2804.