NOTICE: While some members of the South Hill Brass may also serve as members of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, there is NO official affiliation between the two organizations. More importantly, there is NO formal link between The Un-Authorized Official South Hill Brass Home Page and the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra. This page was created in an effort to help satisfy the World Wide Web's overwhelming demand for information regarding the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra. However, since this page was posted, we have become aware of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra's very own fledgling web site. So, for more accurate, extensive, possibly more reverent, and officially-sanctioned information, please check: |
The South Hill Brass Presents The Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra |
NOBODY expects the South Hill Brass to have a "Southeast Iowa Symphony" page ... |
Now in its fifty-eighth year, the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra continues to provide quality musical entertainment at various locations in southeast Iowa. Though based at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, most concerts are performed three times consecutively, in three separate cities: Mt. Pleasant, Ottumwa, and Burlington. There are "chapter boards" based in each city, as well as a central governing board. |
For more information, contact: Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra 601 North Main Street Mt. Pleasant, Iowa 52641 Phone/Fax: 319-385-6352 e-mail: seiso@iwc.edu |
In general, a typical concert season begins with a fall "pops" concert, currentl performed only in Burlington and Ottumwa, followed by the regular fall concert series, performed in all three cities. October features a special "KidSymphony," occurring in all three cities in a single day. The three winter concerts include performances by the winner of the orchestra's annual "Young Artist Competition." Spring features a "school tour," with the orchestra performing in local schools, at different locations every year. The season "officially" closes with the three concerts of the spring series, although special summer performances are becoming increasingly common (often with fireworks!). |
The Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, currently conducted by Robert "Bob" McConnell, continues to be made up of selected instrumentalists of all ages, and from all walks of life. These smiling, often over-dressed musicians are able to consume amazing quantities of sandwiches, cheese and crackers, fruits, vegetables, chips, dips, brownies, cookies, pizza, and "fast food," as well as an occasional casserole or exotic dessert, as they make their way from city to city, rehearsing weekly, playing some sixteen performances per year. Support comes from individual and business donations and many volunteer hours, as well as ticket sales. |
* Recent excavations at Megiddo, near the Plain of Esdraelon in present-day Israel, have raised perplexing questions about whether Cardinal Ximinez was the founder of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, and indeed, whether there ever was a "Cardinal Ximinez" associated with Iowa Wesleyan College. Therefore, this information should be considered just one theory regarding the mist-shrouded origins of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra. |
visitors since 1 April 1999 |
"Cardinal Bob" McConnell, second from left |
NOTICE: While some members of the South Hill Brass may also serve as members of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, there is NO official affiliation between the two organizations. More importantly, there is NO formal link between The Un-Authorized Official South Hill Brass Home Page and the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra. This page was created in an effort to help satisfy the World Wide Web's overwhelming demand for information regarding the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra. However, since this page was posted, we have become aware of the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra's very own fledgling web site. So, for more accurate, extensive, possibly more reverent, and officially-sanctioned information, please check: |
