The Modesto Symphony Orchestra opens its 86th Classics Season Oct. 14 and 15 at the Gallo Center for the Arts with a program focused on America and the virtue of youth. Music Director David Lockington will lead the Modesto Symphony in an evening of classical favorites featuring 15-year-old piano virtuoso, Ray Ushikubo performing Gershwin’s hugely popular “Rhapsody in Blue.” Also on the program Copland’s “Hoe-Dow, Billy the Kid Suite and Fanfare for the Common Man,” Liszt’s “Hungarian Fantasy,” Diamond’s “Rounds: Movement 1” and Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.”
Renowned piano prodigy opens Modesto Symphony Orchestras 86th season

