Moving Music Forward

Greetings Fellow Music Lovers,

Everyone loves Birthdays, and even more so when it's a milestone like a seventy-fifth. Three-quarters of the way to that big century mark, the WSO has been performing great music in our community, so please come and help us celebrate! To paraphrase a great poet, 'With the WSO, the best is definitely yet to be!'

You'll be glad you came!

Leif Bjaland
Music Director and Conductor

Celebrazione!

September 29, 2012

8 pm

NVCC Fine Arts Center

It’s an all-out birthday bash!  We begin the celebrazione with a work from our very first program – Tchaikovsky’s “Cappriccio Italien.”  Dynamic young pianist and WSO audience favorite Alexander Beyer joins us...

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Bolero

November 4, 2012

3 pm

NVCC Fine Arts Center


The theater is cloaked in silent darkness….. a single spotlight gradually illuminates a solitary musician….Debussy’s haunting music for solo flute weaves its way through the theater…….

And so it begins.

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Messiah

December 7, 2012

8 pm

First Congregational Church, Washington

December 8, 2012

8 pm

St. Michael's Church, Litchfield

December 9, 2012

3 pm

NVCC Fine Arts Center

 

 

 

Since it was premiered in Dublin in 1741, Handel's Messiah has continued to inspire with its message of joy and celebration.  Soloists from the Yale University opera program and the chorus of Naugatuck Valley Community College will give voice to this timeless classic. Hallelujah!

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John Williams, POPS

March 8, 2013

8 pm

Litchfield Intermediate School, Litchfield

 

March 9, 2013

8 pm

NVCC Fine Arts Center

Where were you when you first saw “Star Wars?”  How long did it take you to go swimming in the ocean after seeing “Jaws?”  Can you close your eyes and imagine soaring across the night sky with an alien on a bicycle?  

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TITAN

May 11, 2013

8 pm

NVCC Fine Arts Center

Our 75th anniversary celebration concludes with Mahler's titanic First Symphony, which he described as “a world unto itself.”  Maestro Bjaland will lead audiences on a journey of discovery through a multi-media exploration of how Mahler’s first great work came to be.  The composer’s words and music will guide us on this journey, which culminates in a triumphant performance of the complete work.

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