Topeka Symphony opens concert season

The Topeka Symphony will present its first concert of 2005 at 8 p.m. Saturday at White Concert Hall on the Washburn University campus.

“Made in America” features three works composed in the United States. The program will open with Dvorak’s popular Cello Concerto performed by Steven Elisha, director of string studies at Washburn and conducter of the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra.

The program will include the jazz-inspired Afro-American Symphony by William Grant Still and “Rainbow Body,” a recent piece by Christopher Theofanidis.

A free concert preview will be at 7 p.m. in the choral rehearsal room next to the concert hall.

For tickets, call (785) 232-2032 or go to TopekaSymphony.org