Southwest Symphony "Opus Pocus" Halloween Spooktacular Concert

At the invitation of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra, Lucas Darger will serve as the guest conductor this fall, opening the Symphony’s 36th season on Oct. 27 at the Cox Performing Arts Center.
Appropriate for the time of year, the theme of the concert is “Opus Pocus: A Halloween Spooktacular,” and will feature the St. GeorgeDance Company under the direction of Summer Belnap Robertson, as well as the Hurricane High School Orchestra conducted by Debbie Thornton.
Beginning his conducting career when he was 16 with the All-City Children’s Orchestra in Salt Lake City, Darger has gone on to conduct orchestras across the nation, including the South Texas Youth Symphony, the Lincoln Youth Symphony, the Pierre Monteux Festival Orchestra, the University of Iowa Philharmonic Orchestra, and the All-University String Orchestra.
Darger earned his master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Iowa, where he studied with. William LaRue Jones, named by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as “one of the most active and versatile symphonic conductors in America today.”