Final Performances For Pak Before He Leaves For San Diego

Jung-Ho Pak, the Spokane Symphony’s energetic young associate conductor, will say “good-bye” to the orchestra and to Spokane audiences with two performances at The Met Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening. The concert will feature the Spokane Area Children’s Chorus in Calvin Custer’s recent work “Talking to the Sun.”

Other works in the program are Francois Couperin’s Concert Royeaux No. 3, Marurice Ravel’s “Tombeau de Couperin” and Francis Poulenc’s “The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant” with Karrie Brown, a Spokane teacher and storyteller, as narrator.

Pak will become the music director of the San Diego Symphony next.

As is customary at the symphony’s Met performances, Pak will provide informal spoken program notes before each of the works on the concert.

The concert Sunday begins at 3 p.m.; Tuesday’s concert is at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $9 to $19.50 and are available at the Symphony box office and through G&B Select-a-Seat.