"Listen fresh, Listen local"™
Jennifer Sacher Wiley
Music Director & Conductor
announcing our 2025 Educational show
"Vacation with the Orchestra"
Visit European countries with the WSSO!
works by Rossini, Bizet, Richard Rogers & more
Friday, December 12, show times
9:30 (249 seats remaining)
10:45 (full)
12:30 (full)
Saint Patrick Parish Activity Center, Carlisle
The WSSO, led by Jennifer Sacher Wiley, has developed over a dozen original, scripted "concert dramas" ideal for students in grades K-6. For the last two seasons we offered productions for schools in our region, teaching concepts such as orchestral texture, and rhythm & tempo. Our 2025 program, "Vacation with the Orchestra", teaches about music and culture. We'll be collaborating with a Production Team of middle school students from Camp Curtin Academy and Saint Patrick School, and the Eagle View middle school orchestra.
Works performed will be excerpts from Cesar Franck's Symphony No. 2, Bizet's "Carmen" Suites, a Rossini Overture, a Gilbert & Sullivan medley, and a "Climb Every Mountain" sing-along!
Students will also learn about instruments of the orchestra by meeting featured wind & brass WSSO musicians.
Seats remaining:
9:30 249 seats • 10:45 33 seats • 12:30 (full)
Meet the Musicians!
Our Gilbert & Sullivan medley in "Vacation with the Orchestra" features a few of our woodwind and brass players. Enjoy this 10-minute video with your students as part their preparation for the concert.
featuring Eagle View Middle School Advanced Orchestra
Directed by WSSO Concertmaster, Margeaux Katz Sgrignoli
Suggested Lesson Plans
Your students will enjoy our concert even more if they have had a little preparation!
Consider some of these activities, adaptable for all ages & grades
Click and download plans below
Meet the Production Team!
Twelve middle school students from
Harrisburg's Camp Curtin Academy and Carlisle's Saint Patrick School
have been selected to help bring our show to life!
Also part of the team is Evan Forcey, WSSO's Education Intern, a sophomore music major at Susquehanna University
Scenes from 2024 production of "Music in Motion"
Scenes from 2023 production of "Kaleidoscope of Sound"
(click image for 50-second ABC-27 News clip)
