Pianist Opens Symphony Season

UNPUBLISHED CORREECTION: The name of Garrick Ohlsson was misspelled in this story.

He looks like a halfback and plays the piano like an angel. Garrick Ohlssohn has won a string of awards such as the gold medal in the 1970 Chopin Competition and has established a career as one of the world’s major classical performers recognized by the award of the 1994 Avery Fisher Prize for career achievement.

Ohlssohn will join the Spokane Symphony tonight in a season-opening performance of Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto. Conductor Fabio Mechetti has also scheduled two American classics to inaugurate the orchestra’s 51st season, Samuel Barber’s Overture to “The School for Scandal” and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story.”

The Spokane Symphony Orchestra’s concert begins at 8 tonight at the Opera House. Tickets range from $13 to $28 and are available at the Symphony box office in the Seafirst Building, and at G&B outlets, 325-SEAT. , DataTimes