Program Features Mozart

Conductor Jung-Ho Pak says, “Nothing knocks the cobwebs off your ideas about the classics like doing new music.”

If there are any cobwebs left around Mozart’s music at the Spokane Symphony’s “Totally Mozart” program Sunday, it will not likely be the fault of Pak or his soloist, Spokane-born pianist Stephen Drury. The pair will perform Mozart’s Concerto in A major (K. 488), and Pak will conduct the orchestra in Mozart’s Divertimento in D major (K. 251) and the famous Symphony in G minor (K. 550).

The concert will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at The Met and will be repeated Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $9 to $19, available at the symphony ticket office (624-1200) and all G&B Select-a-Seat outlets (325-SEAT).

Both Pak and Drury are well known for their performances of modern music as well as the classics. Pak, making his debut as the Spokane Symphony’s associate conductor, conducts the International Chamber Orchestra, a group that has done dozens of premiere performances and recordings.

Drury, who now teaches at the New England Conservatory in Boston, is one of the world’s foremost proponents of avant-garde compositions. Drury’s recordings of the music of John Cage, Charles Ives and Elliott Carter have received wide critical acclaim.

, DataTimes