A big idea, and six months of phone calls, have paid off for the Quad City Symphony Orchestra. Thursday night (5/14) it will celebrate the end of its 100th season with a concert, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Orchestra executive director, Ben Loeb, says the world famous cellist has a very busy schedule and receives a lot of requests like this.
Along with overtures by Brahms and Tchaikovsky, Yo-Yo Ma will play the Dvorak Cello Concerto.
The 100th season opened last fall with another top soloist, pianist Andre Watts.
Formerly known as the Tri-City Symphony, it played its first concert on May 29th, 1916.
The concert is sold out, but will be carried live on WVIK beginning at 7 pm Thursday in collaboration with Iowa Public Radio.