Photo by Jake Koteen
Photo by Jake Koteen
The WHSO began with four concerts each season. During our tenth anniversary season we will add four more performances! Our first performance, “Dancing with the Symphony,” continues our unique fundraising effort and will take place at the West Hartford Town Hall in September. Our subscription concert series begins in October at Kingswood Oxford’s Roberts Theatre. The over-arching theme this anniversary year we have titled “Favorite Moments, Favorite Movements,” during which we will highlight performers and special musical works from our past ten years. By special invitation the WHSO will be the orchestra accompanying the Travelers’ Chorus at their annual December holiday concert in Mortensen Hall at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. In April the orchestra will perform its 2nd Children’s Concert for all the third grade classes of our West Hartford Schools, the first of which had an audience of 700 students last season. To end our 10th anniversary season the WHSO will perform its first-ever outdoor concert in West Hartford at a date and place to be announced.
The Town of West Hartford is very proud of having its own orchestra – something few towns can boast of. We are truly thankful, as we all should be, for the talented “music-makers” you see sitting on our various stages. Also, we are always mindful of the fact that without you – our audience and patrons – we would not be where we are today.