4/3/09: A Great Mother's Day Gift! Great Music and Great Food for Mom’s Special Day

Lynchburg area families will be able to treat Mom to lunch at one of the area's favorite restaurants on Mother’s Day, May 10, followed by a concert of beautiful music by the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra.

It's "Brahms for Moms" on Mother's Day. Get your concert tickets early, and then take Mom out for a pre-concert meal at either Grace Restaurant in Lynchburg or Benjamin's in Forest . Show the concert tickets, and get a 10 percent discount. Then it's on to E.C. Glass Auditorium for a 4 PM all-Brahms concert by the LSO with pianist Leon Bates.

Conductor Bruce Habitzruther has planned three soulful Brahms works — the “Tragic” Overture, the autumnal Symphony #4, and the soaring Piano Concerto #2, featuring the same pianist who brought a near-capacity Lynchburg audience roaring to its feet during his last visit here in 2006. Brahms’ music has it all — delicacy, triumph, passion, joy — just the thing for Mom on her special day.