There's no place like Symphony Sunday - Life - The Charleston ...

by earle@wvgazette.com (Rosalie Earle)

Figueroa, co-chairwoman of Bayer Symphony Sunday 2010, had two inspirations while strolling through the festivities on the riverside lawn of UC last June: one was to put on a Symphony Sunday with an Egyptian theme. That will be the problem next year for Jo Ellen Zack, the incoming president of the West Virginia Symphony League, which puts on the annual Symphony Sunday affair. Thus, "Over the Rainbow," the signature song from the 1939 movie version of "The Wizard of Oz," is this year's theme for Symphony Sunday, June 4-6 at the University of Charleston. the other was Oz. She decided to follow the Oz idea when she learned how much her Co-chairwoman Shelia Neal, the outgoing League president, loved the movie. CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- How can you top witches and wizards and dogs....

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