Classically Speaking

The Wheeling Symphony has announced its 2010-11 season.  I spoke with Maestro Andre Raphel Smith about the music they’ll be playing.

Parts of that interview were featured in short stories on the radio
(you can now listen to them online: one and two.) 

Here’s more of our discussion:

The season listing can be downloaded as a Word document on Wheeling Symphony Web site.  Here’s a summary:

Masterworks I “SENSATIONAL TCHAIKOVSKY” September 24, 2010

Prokofieff: Romeo and Juliet (selections)    
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major (William Wolfram, piano)    
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5  

Masterworks II “GUITAR MAGIC AND WV ARTISTS” November 5, 2010

Ravel: Ma Mere l’Oye Suite (Mother Goose Suite)   
John Beall: Raven Rock (WV Composer; Faculty, West Virginia University)
Rodrigo:  Concierto de Aranjuez    (Eliot Fisk, guitar)    
Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony”  (Robert Troeger, organ)

Masterworks III “SEASONS OF AN AMERICAN LIFE” – A WSO Festival on Nature and Folk Music. February 18, 2011

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
O’Connor:  The American Seasons (Seasons of an American Life) (Mark O’Connor, violin)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Pastorale)  

Masterworks IV “MAGNIFICENT MAHLER”- 150^thAnniversary Season of Mahler’s birth, 100^th week anniversary of Mahler’s death.  May 20, 2011

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela 
Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) (Lianne Coble, soprano)
Mahler: Symphony No. 1  

Earlier this month, the WV Symphony announced its season.  You can read (and listen) to more about that here.