Sept. 13: A Taste of Italy

Oct. 25: Joyce Yang, Van Cliburn Silver Medalist

Dec. 6: A Song for the Season

Jan. 24: At the Movies

March 7: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

March 28: Temple Jazz Orchestra concert

May 2: Great American Composers

Note: For information, call 254-778-6683

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Hold on all you symphonatics!

There’s been a slight change of plans.

The Temple Symphony Orchestra’s season opener, “A Taste of Italy” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13, is switching venues from the Mary Alice Marshall Performing Arts Center to the Cultural Activities Center.

TSO Executive Director Rick Thomssen said because the MAMPAC will not be available at the time of the first concert, the venue needed to be changed.

“We appreciate the CAC in helping accommodate this switch,” Thomssen said. “It’s just another example of the art community helping out each other in Temple.”

According to Skeet Powell, TC director of facilities, the new air conditioning unit was not sent in time to have the MAMPAC ready for the concert.

“The manufacturer is behind in shipping the unit,” Powell said. “And that has put us about 30 days behind schedule.”

“A Taste of Italy” will feature “The Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Respighi, “Capriccio Italien op. 45” by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and “Concerto No. 1 op. 6 D major for violin and orchestra” by Nicolo Paganini with soloist Carla Leurs.

Leurs began playing the violin at age 6 and one year later she performed for the Queen of the Netherlands. At 14, Leurs entered the Royal Conservatory at the Hague and continued her violin studies at the Musikakademie Basel and the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2005, she finished studies at the Juilliard School as a student of Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein.

--rrenfrow@temple-telegram.com