Conducted by Morrie Brand
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 of the fruits of its efforts with family and friends.
Held on Tuesday, July 10 at 8 p.m. at Seton Hill Performing Arts Center
Conducted by Morrie Brand
2018 Repertoire:
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Borodin Symphony No. 2 – 1st mvt
Rimsky-Korsakov Variations from Capriccio Espagnol
Meyerbeer Coronation March from Le Prophet
John Williams Selections from Jurassic Park
February 26, 2019
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents “Music and Magic” on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The concert opens with Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo featuring Corrie Stallings, mezzo soprano (former Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist), and Otis Cook premieres new choreographer with guest dancers Iffy Roma and David McKay. Grammy-nominated cellist Amit… Read More
January 29, 2019
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents Heart Strings on February 16, 2019 at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The concert Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, followed by Chee-Yun performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. Chee-Yun plays a violin made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1669. It is rumored to have been buried with… Read More
December 4, 2018
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents Home for the Holidays on December 15. The symphony will be joined on stage by Ashley Fabian, soprano, a second-year resident artists with the Pittsburgh Opera. She will perform Christmas Waltz, The Christmas Song, O Holy Night, Silent Night before closing the concert Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah with the Choir. Ms. Fabian, originally from Charleston, SC, is a… Read More
