Before an evening of fine music, dine at the Outing Club for just $30 per person. Reservations can be made through the Outing Club at 563.324.5284. Non-Outing Club members are welcome and credit cards are accepted. Reservations must be made by January 13. The dinner includes a butternut squash bisque served with a firecracker muffin, a duet of filet of beef tenderloin and mahi-mahi, braised wild mushrooms, garlic roasted Yukon Gold potato wedges laced with an apple-brandy demi-glace, steamed baby carrots and asparagus, all followed by a caramel pecan fudge torte.

The Quad City Youth Symphony Orchestra begins its 52nd season with it's Autumn Concert in Centennial Hall on Sunday, November 15, at 3 PM. Highlighted on the program will be Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony, as well as a look into the underworld with Moussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Offenbach's Orpheus. Also on the schedule is Grieg's incidental music from Peer Gynt, who ends his life story unsure of which path he'll take at the last cross-roads.

Tickets can be purchased at the door for $10, with Seniors entering for $8 and students for $5.

IOWA vs. ILLINOIS TRIVIA NIGHT

to Benefit Winnie's Place Women's Shelter

Last chance to sign up for Friday's match!

Trivia Questions, Silent Auction, Food & Drinks,

Friendly Competition and Fellowship!

Friday, October 16 beginning at 6:00 pm

@ First Congregational UCC, 2201 - 7th Ave, Moline.

$10 per person, teams of eight players.

Sign up by calling Jo at 309-786-6494.

Will visiting Iowa take home the "trophy" or

will Illinois play the not so hospitable host?

Winnie's Place is a ministry of Churches United of the Quad City Area

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra launches its 2009-10 season with a concert showcasing the talent and versatility of the 95-year-old organization. This concert features the intricate and concise music of Mozart juxtaposed with the sweeping  majesty of Mahler. These concerts will be performed on October 3 and 4, and are sponsored in memory of Katherine Stafford, by her family. Saturday evening's concert will be held at the Adler Theatre in Davenport at 8 PM, and followed on Sunday afternoon at 2 PM at Centennial Hall in Rock Island. Tickets for this concert can be purchased in person at the QCSO Box Office, 327 Brady Street in Davenport, by phone at 800.745.3000 or online at www.QCSymphony.com.

A gulf of 100 years lay between Mozart's final symphony and Mahler's first. In 1788, as Mozart was scoring his final and perhaps greatest symphony, the romantic period in music was yet to be born. By 1888, when Mahler was completing work on his symphonic premier, composers found themselves in a world just beginning to challenge the now established the romantic movement. In both cases, the powerful music created by these two masters merits the celestial monikers with which they have come to be associated: the primordial Titans of Greco-roman mythology and the Olympian god Jupiter who led their overthrow.

On the Thursday before the concerts, Quad Citians will get the chance to hear Music Director Mark Russell Smith give his insights into the upcoming performance at Inside the Music. Expert and novice alike will enjoy this casual musical conversation at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on Thursday, October 1. This event is free to the public, with wine and cheese provided.

Mark Russell Smith will also be available at Kai Swanson's Concert Conversations, held an hour before each of the weekend's concerts. At Concert Conversations the audience members will be given a quick tour of highlights from the program they are about to experience. New this season, concert conversations will be held in the concert hall itself. This look into the background of the concert's repertoire, sponsored by Rich James of Wells Fargo Advisors, is in its tenth year and has become an audience favorite.

Also new this season, audience members are invited to reminisce about the amazing performance at the Woodfire Grill, 131 West 2nd St., Davenport, immediately following the Saturday night concert. Mingle with Mark Russell Smith, musicians from the QCSO, and sometimes even the guest artist. You never know who will be there! The evening promises free hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, and remarkable repartee.