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September 25, 2011
October 30, 2011
February 5, 2012
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Presenting the 79th Season, 2011-2012

Alison Edwards

"Heroes!"

September 25, 2011
Small Packages

"Good Things: Small Packages!"

October 30, 2011
Strings

"No Strings Attached!"

February 5, 2012
The Sea

"The Sea"

May 6, 2012
Conductor Kimo Furumoto
Conductor Kimo Furumoto

The Rio Hondo Symphony
is one of the oldest
and most successful
community orchestras in
all of Southern California.

The Symphony

For 78 years, the Rio Hondo Symphony has thrilled Southern California audiences. Founded by Ruth Haroldson, a violin instructor at Whittier College, the orchestra has provided music, free of admission fees, to visitors from various communities. First called the Whittier Symphony, in 1964 the orchestra acknowledged the wider audience by renaming itself the Rio Hondo Symphony. Today the symphony is sponsored by Whitter, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, and by Rio Hondo College. It is also supported by hundreds of individuals and businesses.

The mission of the Rio Hondo Symphony Association is to enrich the cultural life of the community it serves, to expand the musical knowledge of youth and adults, and to provide an outlet for the talents of musicians in the greater Southern California area through the performance of symphonic music.

Four concerts are performed yearly at the Vic Lopez Auditorium at Whittier High School in Whittier.

Voices Rising - Benefit Concert on January 8, 2012

The Rio Hondo Symphony's benefit concert set for 2 p.m. January 8, 2012, will feature four notable local opera stars. It will be a vocal extravaganza of audience favorites performed in the stunning setting of the Sky Rose Chapel at Rose Hills. Vocalists who will perform operatic gems and Broadway classics will include Mezzo-Soprano Suzanna Guzman, Soprano Linda Leyrer, Tenor Robert MacNeil and Bass Baritone Cedric Berry.

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