Directed by Morrie Brand
The Summer Chamber Orchestra is open by invitation to area music teachers, WYSO alum, current WYSO members, and other area musicians.
2022 Repertoire:
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brand: Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Bernstein: Music from West Side Story
Questions? Contact Morrie Brand [email protected]
An educational offering of the WSO’s Academy of Music, the Summer Philharmonic provides an orchestral playing experience for area musicians. It includes many area music teachers, youth orchestra members, and alumni, and other adults. The orchestra meets for five rehearsals and presents this short concert to share the fruits of its efforts with family and friends.
Summer Strings featuring members of the Summer Philharmonic and WYSO Philharmonic presented a virtual concert:
August 11, 2020
Concert Program
Conducted by Morrie Brand, Academy of Music Director
Grieg: Prelude from Holberg Suite
Mendelssohn: Allegro vivace from String Sinfonia No. 5
Dvorak: Serenade for Strings – 1st Movement
Bernstein: West Side Story Medley
Morrie Brand: Essay for Strings (1985) Moderato – Adagio – Presto
May 22, 2023
WSO Presents “Classics on the Rocks” Concert in the Barn at West Overton The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra will present “Classics on the Rocks” a unique concert and whiskey tasting experience at West Overton in Scottdale on Thursday, June 8 at 7:00 p.m. The evening concert will be held in West Overton’s historic five-story barn and features the WSO Cello Ensemble,… Read More
May 10, 2023
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra’s annual Hat Luncheon returns to the Greensburg Country Club on Saturday, June 3, 2023. Co-chairpersons Karen Kohut and Diane Nickoloff welcome guests to the champagne reception beginning at 11:00 a.m. and the luncheon at noon. The event will be held on the spacious outdoor porch area and ballrooms. In addition to gift baskets and silent auction… Read More
March 30, 2023
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents its 54th season finale Beethoven’s Mass in C on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The concert opens with Stravinsky’s Danses concertantes and concludes with Beethoven’s Mass in C. “Beethoven’s Mass in C is a brilliant, energetic, and touching musical document from the grand tradition established by… Read More