The music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is among the delights that will be presented during a performance of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Thursday, Dec. 6, at West Virginia University.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre of the WVU Creative Arts Center on the Evansdale Campus.

Guest conductor Leonard Slatkin will lead the orchestra in Mozarts final symphonythe popularSymphony, No. 41 in C Major,also known as theJupiter Symphony.

Also on the program is the orchestras first performance ofPhantasmagoriaby John Corigliano, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Composer of the Year, andCello Concertoby Sir Edward Elgar.

Phantasmagoriais written for piano and cello. The piece is a compilation of reworked selections based on Corilianos operaThe Ghosts of Versailles.Orchestra principal cellist Anne Martindale Williams will be featured onCello Concerto.

Slatkin is music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. He has made regular appearances with virtually every major international orchestra, and his performances have taken him to leading opera companies in the United States and around the world. The conductors more than 100 recordings have been recognized with five Grammy awards and more than 50 other Grammy nominations.

Williams has enjoyed a successful career as principal cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1979. Throughout her tenure with the orchestra, she has often been featured as a soloist both in Pittsburgh and on tour in New York City at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. She has also collaborated with guest artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, André Previn, Lynn Harrell and Pinchas Zukerman in numerous chamber music performances. Williams divides her time between the orchestra, teaching at Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne universities, and solo and chamber music performances in America, Europe and Asia.

The Dec. 6 performance is the second of three concerts the orchestra planned in Morgantown this year. The final two classical concerts in the series are sponsored by BB&T Bank.

Orchestra officials are recommending subscriptions to the series as holiday gifts for music lovers. Subscriptions for the remaining two concerts are still available for $63. The student price is $24, or $12 per ticket for each concert.

Single tickets are $38 and are only available through the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra box office. They may be purchased by phone at 1-800-743-8560 or online athttp://www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Single tickets will also be available at the door on the night of the concert.

The final concert in the series will feature conductor Daniel Meyer and world-renowned violinist Sarah Chang on Monday, Feb. 11. Meyer will lead the orchestra in a concert of works including BeethovensSymphony No. 7and VivaldisThe Four Seasons.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Series at WVU is presented with support from William and Loulie Canady in memory of their daughter Valerie.