The featured soloist for the evening is Sandra Maytan. Ms Maytan is an emerging young singer with a richness of vocal expression. Born and raised in Germany, she currently teaches voice and piano at the Valparaiso University Partners for Music Program. She will sing about young love in an aria, “Una Voce Poco Fa” by Rossini. Then the gifted songstress will further engage the audience in Gustav Mahler's  "Songs of a Wayfarer".

A contemporary work by Lucas Richman, “I Remember a Lullaby” promises to be a lovely musical vignette that combines Ms Maytan’s voice with the LCSO Children's Chorus which is directed by Matt Nelson.  The LCSO Children’s Chorus is sponsored from a grant from the Unity Foundation of La Porte County and the generous donation of donors who's primary focus is children's programing. This community chorus has been formed to fill a need for elementary students in Grades 2-5 to further learn vocal basics in depth. This young choir will also be preparing songs with the symphony’s April Pops concert for another style of singing.

Other musical arrangements for the November evening will include some British humor and a newer look at classic Bach. Audience members will enjoy the wit in Benjamin Britten's " A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" narrated by Grant Fitch. Grant is an actor/storyteller that entertained LCSO orchestra patrons at a variety of occasions last season.  “The Wise Virgins Suite” by William Walton will round out the concert with six orchestral “fantasias” based on chorales by J. S. Bach.

With all of these works in one concert, there is a clear emphasis on the “more” portion of the concert’s title “Mezzo, Mahler and More”. In this season of “Symphonic Surprises”, each LCSO concert will have an unadvertised surprise that will give the audience an added perk that the audience members will be talking about for a long time to come.

This is a concert for all ages to enjoy.