Dear Fellow Music Lovers,
Music can be a source of inspiration and entertainment, introspection and sorrow.  With the Waterbury Symphony’s 2009-10 Season, it is cause for joy and celebration!

Each of the composers we will be performing this season has strived to express the whole range of human emotion, with stirring results.

Rhapsody, a virtuostic, ‘in the moment’ kind of music opens our season with an evocation of exotic places and an air of festivity.  Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is a journey from darkness to light, a symphonic hero quest culminating with a call for universal brotherhood.  Antonio Vivaldi celebrates life and nature in his masterpiece The Four Seasons, a vivid depiction of earth’s annual cycle featuring the brilliant young violinist, Dan Zhu.  And finally, the joy of friendship is at the heart of Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a series of intimate musical portraits of friends and loved ones.

But of music’s many powers, perhaps the greatest is its ability to bring us together.  We enter a concert as a collection of individuals and leave changed, the many becoming one.  Music unites and transforms us in a way that few experiences in life can.

Come share in the joy and celebration!

Leif Bjaland
Music Director and Conductor