West Covina Symphony Orchestra: Press

West Covina Symphony to hold free concert
By Robert Thomas
Posted: 12/13/2008 02:54:14 PM PST

In an era when orchestras are struggling, the West Covina Symphony has undergone a resurrection and will play a free holiday music concert today at 3 p.m. at the West Covina United Methodist Church. Sylvia Lee Mann, who was an orchestra member in the 1960s and 1970s when she attended the city's public schools, has come home to help bring the symphony back to life.

The concert will feature holiday pieces, including "A Christmas Festival " by Leroy Anderson and several carol arrangements, along with "Fantasia on Greensleeves" and "Rhosymedre" by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni. Info: (626) 771-0462; www.westcovinasymphony.org.