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Music Department

The Carson Dominguez Symphony
The orchestra is made up of students of CSUDH (both Music majors & non-Music majors), alumni, faculty & staff at CSUDH, people living in the community, and professional musicians including local teachers (community college, public school, & private). The orchestra is conducted by Dr. Frances Steiner.

The symphony plays a very wide range of repertoire: works by Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and contemporary music such as the West Coast Premiere of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winning composition in music by George Walker. The orchestra also performs more popular music such as Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, music from West Side Story , and Highlights of Showboat.

The symphony receives major funding from the City of Carson Fine Arts and Historical Commission, and additional support from the Carson Community Symphony Association and the American Federation of Musicians Recording Industries Music Performance Fund.
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  • The Leviathan Brothers, Piano & Drum Duet Thursday, March 13th , 2008-7pm LaCorte Hall, A103
  • Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony Orchestra Concert March 15, 2008, 8pm University Theater
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