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LaGrange Symphony Orchestra's 29th annual Young Artists Competition (YAC) is for WIND INSTRUMENTS! This event will be held in LaGrange, GA on February 1st, 2025. Applications are now being accepted. Deadline for receipt of all materials is December 6, 2024 so don't delay!
With great flair, the American Fanfare concert marked the opening of the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra's (LSO's) 2024/25 “Season of Celebration”! This season commemorates the 10th anniversary of Maestro Richard Prior.
My Favorite Things 2024 will be held October 17th at Del'avant. This fundraising event is fun, delicious and entertaining. Tickets are $65 and on sale until October 3, 2024.

You will most likely feel a connection to this composition as the lyrical reminiscing relates to almost any small town in America.

This will start the season with a classical explosion and rare historical opportunity! This concert is uniquely American with breathtaking works by great American composers of the last century.

The LaGrange Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is pleased to announce that Dr. Sinisa Ciric will be joining the LSO in their 2024/25 Season of Celebration! Dr. Ciric will fulfill the role of guest concertmaster beginning with the September 17th opening concert entitled "American Fanfare". The 2024/25 season is a celebratory landmark
Ovation! 2024, the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra's summer music camp 2024 - educational and fun!

STELLARUM is an eight-voice choral group which includes the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director and Conductor, Richard Prior. Performance is July 14th at First Presbyterian 6PM

The LaGrange Symphony Orchestra Announces the Inaugural Winners of the Dr. Scott H. Smith Award of Excellence Scholarship
LSO and CSWG Musician's celebrated with a wrap social at the close of the 2023/2024 season. Here are a few photos from their gathering.

Mambo – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Music by Leonard Bernstein, performed by LaGrange Symphony Orchestra April 27, 2024, conducted by Maestro Richard Prior, LaGrange, Georgia

All the World's a Broadway Stage - an epic salute and grand season finale in collaboration with the Choral Society of West Georgia
An epic salute to Broadway! Don't miss this fantastic collaboration of the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Society of West Georgia.

The LaGrange Symphony Youth Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Michael Giel, during their annual side-by-side with the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra. 3/19/2024 Alan Lee Silva’s “The Code”.

A remarkably good concert. Graduating seniors honored. Great professionalism in such young musicians in both the String Ensemble and the LSYO.

An evening worth more than words can say. Champion role modelling, mentoring, lifelong learning, new discoveries, and a great deal of inspiration – a truly harmonious event!

The repertoire is impressive! Don't miss the Spring Concert of the LSYO and String Ensemble Monday 3/25/24 at 7:30 in Callaway Auditorium.

A music video snippet of William Levi Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony” performed within the INSPIRE concert March 19, 2024 by the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, LaGrange, GA. Third movement “O Le Me Shine, Shine Like a Morning Star!”

This concert is all about harmonious inspiration, lifelong learning, and new discoveries with the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra!

A concert appropriately named INSPIRE. Filled with talent of all ages, mentorship, energy, diligence, and musical expression.

The LSO presents a series of music education concerts to 2000+ 3rd graders from Georgia and Alabama...

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Listen to this conversation that touches on Bettie Biggs' views about memorization and mentor influences as a young music student.  Hear about her experience with Robert Shaw and why the CSWG chooses to do their main celebratory concert just before the Thanksgiving holiday. This great discussion flows through years of experiences and observations,  describes a few of the many eclectic choral concerts her group has done, and ends...
Expect the unexpected in this episode of Off the Podium, with Maestro Richard Prior and principal flute, Elisa Lyle.  Elisa is an original member of the LSO, ever since the very first concert on January 14, 1990. She was Elisa Skelton t
In conversation with Dr. George Henry this week!  Already at our sixth week mark in this series...
The second podcast, featuring Sasha Prior, in the series "Off the Podium" has been published.  Sasha is the wife of LSO's Maestro Richard Prior.  Listen to this interesting...
The first podcast, featuring Tracy Woodard, in the series "Off the Podium" has been published.  Tracy Woodard, is the first guest in an interesting conversation, with Maestro Richard Prior, about her life and philosophies.  A musician in the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, Tracy discusses ...