Officials to announce new home for Illinois Symphony Orchestra and gift to cultural district         

[FEB. 26, 2005]  BLOOMINGTON -- Representatives of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Bloomington Cultural District plan to announce two new developments. The official announcements will be made March 3 at 1 p.m. on the stage of the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, 110 E. Mulberry St.

Maestra Karen Lynn Deal of the Illinois Symphony will join the honorable John Freese, president of board of governors of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and John Wohlwend, board chair of the Bloomington/Normal Symphony, to announce a new home for the symphony's Bloomington-Normal seasons.

Cultural district capital campaign co-chair Henry Bird will then announce the receipt of a major gift toward the renovation of the 83-year-old Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

For further information, contact the Illinois Symphony Orchestra at [phone] or the Bloomington Cultural District at [phone].

[News release]