What the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra might do for 2008/2009

Been swearing to check out the local symphony for years and never done it? Here’s the WSO’s tentative schedule, including a free family concert in March:

Oct. 19, 2008 – Composers Across the Centuries and Around the World

• Chadwick     Jubilee
• Copland       Letter from Home
• Liszt             Piano Concerto No. 1
• Constantine Finehouse, piano
• Brahms  Variations on a Theme by Haydn
• Smetana     Three Dances from The Bartered Bride

Nov. 16, 2008 – American Masters – Today and Yesterday

• Peter Child     Festival
• Copland         Quiet City
• Mozart   Aria from Il Re Pastore
• Barber           Knoxville: Summer  of 1915, Jayne West, soprano

Dec. 14, 2008 – Catch the Holiday Spirit

• Holiday Pops featuring Elaine Daiber, soprano

Feb. 8, 2009 –   Winter Magic

• Larry Bell   What Goes Around Comes Around
• Mozart       Oboe Concerto in C
• Thomas Oboe Lee    Persphone’s Soliloquy for Oboe
• Keisuke Wakao, oboe (Boston Symphony)
• Elgar       Wand of Youth Suite
• Wagner   Three Exerpts from Die Meistersinger

Mar. 15, 2009 –  Family Concert – Free Admission for All

• Featuring  Julian Wachner’s   The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, narrated by Bonnie Greenberg, storyteller

May 10, 2009  –  Mother’s Day Season Finale

• Payne  Overture to As You Like It
• Julia Scott Carey  Elegy for Violin and Orchestra
• Mendelssohn  Violin Concerto in E minor, Elina Lev, violin
• Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6,  Pathetique