60th Season
2008 - 2009

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All concerts Sundays 3:00 PM at MassBay Community College, 
50 Oakland Street, Wellesley Hills 

Pre-concert talk by Leslie M. Holmes, WSO President, at 2:15 PM 
for subscription concerts.

                      

 Ticket prices for 2008- 2009 season:  Adult - $20, Senior/Student - $15, Free admission for children  under 12 with adult paid admission.  Tickets may be purchased at the box office, online,  in Wellesley at  Eaton Apothecary and Wellesley Booksmith. 

 Purchasing tickets using a Credit Card is available in advance of concert by calling 
 781 235-0515 or at the Box Office on the day of the concert.  


WSO YOUNG SOLOIST COMPETITION


2008-2009 Concert Season  - Celebrating American Music

 October 19, 2008          Composers Across the Centuries & Around the World


  
           Constantine Finehouse               

         
           
                 Chadwick           Jubilee from  Symphonic Sketches
                 
Copland              Letter from Home           
                
  Liszt                   Piano Concerto No.1 in Eb                
                                                 
Constantine Finehouse, piano
          
        Brahms              Variations on a Theme by Haydn
                 
Smetana            Three Dances from The Bartered Bride

    

    Pre-concert talk by Leslie M. Holmes, WSO President, at 2:15 PM
          
         Tickets may be purchased online for this concert.    

 November 16, 2008                Celebrating the Word of Wellesley         

                                     American Masters - Yesterday and Today


Jayne West


                Peter Child     Festival
                Copland         Quiet City
                Mozart           Aria: L'amero, saro costante, K.208 
                                      from Il Re Pastore
                
Barber           Knoxville: Summer  of 1915
                                       
Jayne West, soprano 
                Beethoven     Symphony No. 1 in C

         


                                     
       

 
Pre-concert talk by Leslie M. Holmes, WSO President, at 2:15 PM
 

 December  14, 2008           Holiday Pops  - Catch the Holiday Spirit           


Elaine Daiber

       Featuring the delightful soprano, Elaine Daiber, in Holiday favorites
       both classical and popular, Gustave Holst's, Fantasy on Old Carols.
       Plus the winner of the WSO Two Front Teeth contest, a visit from Santa,
       our popular sing-along, and the kids all
get to conduct the orchestra. 

 February 8, 2009       Winter Magic 


Keisuke Wakao

 

          Larry Bell               What Goes Around Comes Around 
                                                 
from Idumea Symphony
         
Mozart                    Oboe Concerto in C, K.314
          Thomas Oboe Lee  Persephone's Soliloquy for Oboe
                                               Keisuke Wakao, oboe (Boston Symphony)
          Elgar                       Wand of Youth Suite ll
          Wagner                   Three Exerpts from Die Meistersinger

 

Pre-concert talk by Leslie M. Holmes, WSO President, at 2:15 PM

 March 15, 2009                          Family Concert - FREE for Everyone


Bonnie Greenberg

Celebrating Music in the Schools Month

Elizabeth Scanlan, host
Director of Performing Arts, Wellesley Public Schools

Featuring Longfellow's The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Julian Wachner
Narrated by Bonnie Greenberg Storyteller (Fiske School)

 WSO Youth Soloist Competition Winner, TBA

Special guests: Middle School String Orchestra
Laurie Peckins, director.


Instrument Petting Zoo and  Show 'n' Tell beginning at 1:30.

 

May 10, 2009            Mother's Day - Season Finale 


Elina Lev


          Paine                       Overture to As You Like It 
          Julia Scott Carey      Elegy for Violin and Orchestra
         
Mendelssohn             Violin Concerto in E minor
                              Elina Lev, violin
          
Tchaikovsky              Symphony No. 6, Pathetique                                     

   Pre-concert talk by Leslie M. Holmes, WSO President, at 2:15 PM

     

 

        


Our Sponsors

 

                              


Orchestra-in-Residence at MassBay Community College.  Member of Arts/Boston.
Funded in part by the Wellesley Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Cultural
Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

If you have  inquiries for the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra,
 please contact us.
Information and tickets: 781 235-0515

Mailing address: 
Wellesley Symphony Orchestra
 PO Box 81860
Wellesley Hills, MA 02481
Our e-mail address iswelsym@hotmail.com

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