DOWNEY - Not to be outdone by Mother Nature or anything, the spring program offered by the Downey Symphony on April 10 promises budding color, freshness and a great sense of pleasure.Conducted by Music Director Sharon Lavery, orchestral works will include an early Brahms that this orchestra has never before performed, and Bruch's first violin concerto with soloist Elizabeth Pitcairn, who plays the Stradivarius featured in the fine film, "The Red Violin." Saturday, April 10, is the date, 8 p.m. the time, the Civic Theatre the venue, at 8435 Firestone Blvd. For ticket reservations, $30, $25 and $10, please call the symphony office at (562) 403-2944.

********** Published: March 26, 2010 - Volume 8 - Issue 49