Music professor Yutaka Kono to conduct KSO The Kingsville Symphony Orchestra launches its 4th season on Sunday, Oct. 4 with its first concert at 3 p.m. in Jones Auditorium, 855 N. Armstrong Ave., on the Texas A&M University-Kingsville campus.

Both season tickets and individual concert tickets are available at the Kingsville Chamber of Commerce, the Kingsville Visitors Center, and the TAMUK Music Department.

Individual concert prices are $30, $20, $10, and $5. Season tickets, giving the holder admission to all five of the season’s concerts, are $120, $80, $40, and $20.

The theme of the 4th season is “Bach to the Future.” The opening concert is a tribute to the late Anne Armstrong. Yutaka Kono, assistant professor of music at the university, will be the conductor.

The first movement of J. S. Bach’s cantata “Sleepers, Wake” (Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme) as arranged for orchestra by Eugene Ormandy will anchor the first half of the concert to the season’s theme. The orchestra will also play the hypnotic overture to Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, the stately “Nimrod” section of Sir Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, including the oft-quoted “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”

After the intermission, the orchestra will perform all four movements of the ever popular Symphony No. 9, From the New World, by Antonin Dvorak.