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Celebrating our most recent educational show

"Vacation with the Orchestra"

Thanks for Visiting European countries with the WSSO!

Saint Patrick Parish Activity Center, Carlisle

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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 three 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 collaborated 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 were 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 also learned about instruments of the orchestra by meeting featured wind & brass WSSO musicians.

Meet the Musicians!

Our Gilbert & Sullivan medley in "Vacation with the Orchestra" featured a few of our woodwind and brass players.  Get to know them in this 10-minute video!

Original Lesson Plans

Below are the lesson plans we offered students & teachers who attended "Vacation with the Orchestra"

Lesson 1

A Song about Dreams

Lesson 2

Listen and Move!

with soundtrack

Lesson Plan 2, Movement - 6_17_25, 12
00:00 / 03:48

Lesson 3

Theatrical Medleys

Scenes from 2024 production of "Music in Motion"

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Scenes from 2023 production of "Kaleidoscope of Sound"
(click image for 50-second ABC-27 News clip)

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