Happy Holidays!

Thanks to our musicians and to our many supporters for two wonderful holiday concerts! To our donors, thank you for your continued generosity!

Our volunteer musicians are on "holiday break" and will resume practice in January.

We look forward to our next concert performances, March 2009.

Happy New Year!

For Orchestra Members: Dress Rehearsal

Dress rehearsal, Saturday, December 13, 3-5 p.m.

Senior Center (click for directions)

West Sacramento Senior Center
664 Cummins Way

Holiday Concert 2008

The West Sacramento Community Orchestra

Presents

A Traditional Holiday Concert

With your holiday favorites and classical selections, including

*A Vaughan Williams Christmas
*Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
*Christmas Memories (a medley of holiday tunes)
*Festive Sounds of Hanukah

*Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly (a merrie fugue)

*Winter Wonderland
*O Holy Night
*Jingle Bells Forever
&
featuring our favorite holiday tradition:

*Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride

FREE ADMISSION

Sunday, December 14, 2008, 3:00 PM

Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento

Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 7:30 PM
Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Blvd.
(near Fruitridge)

For Orchestra Members: Dress Rehearsal

Dress rehearsal, Saturday, October 18, 3-5 p.m.

Senior Center (click for directions)

West Sacramento Senior Center
664 Cummins Way

Fall Community Concert 2008

You Are Invited to Join Us for an Exciting Fall Community Concert!

• Andrew Lloyd Webber's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (arr. Custer)

• Suite from "Abdelazer: or, The Moor's Revenge" by Purcell
• Leroy Anderson Favorites (arr. Custer)
• Masquerade Suite, Khachaturian
  

• Remembering the Beatles

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FREE ADMISSION
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Sunday, October 19, 2008, 3 p.m.
West Sacramento Civic Center
1110 West Capitol Avenue
West Sacramento

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Centennial United Methodist Church
5401 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento

Flag Day Concerts: Success

Congratulations to the community orchestra members for a wonderful concert series in celebration of Americana.

To Orchestra Members: Dress Rehearsal

Saturday, Senior Center, 3-5 p.m.

Our Next Concert Dates - June 15, 17

Our next community concert is June 15 (West Sacramento) and June 17 (Sacramento).


Celebrating Americana

Song selections include:

• Armed Forces Salute (arr. B. Lowden)
• Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A."
• The Stars & Stripes Forever, John Phillip Sousa
• Selections from E.T. (John Williams)
• Duke Ellington (A Medley for Orchestra) (arr. C. Custer)
• St. Louis Blues March
• "Pops" Hoe-Down (R. Hayman)
• The American Frontier (arr. C. Custer)