Our Fall Concert Line Up!

Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season from the West Sacramento Community Orchestra!

📅Mark your calendars for our Spring Concerts (March 18 & 20) and our Flag Day Concerts (June 10 and 12)

Our Spring Concert is Right Around the Corner!

Hear Those Jingling Bells! Holiday Concert!

Fall Concert Program

Save the Date: Summer Concerts June 14 and June 16

Our Summer Concert: Music Made in America, including our traditional favorite,  Armed Forces Salute!
Save the Date:  June 14 and June 16 (see CALENDAR tab for times and locations)

Buglers' Holiday

From left, Tom, Tonya, and Tip on trumpets for "Bugler's Holiday" - a triple treat!

June Concert Celebrates Americana

West Sacramento Community Orchestra Welcomes Jennifer Mitchell, Soloist

Soprano and Bay Area native Jennifer Mitchell completed her Master’s in Vocal Performance at San José State University and graduated cum laude from Wellesley College with degrees in Music and Italian. Most recently, she sang the roles of Ida in Die Fledermaus at Lamplighters Music Theatre and Gerda in the workshop of San José Repertory Theatre’s new musical adaptation of The Snow Queen. Other recent performances include singing the roles of Annina in La traviata with Livermore Valley Opera, the Novice in Suor Angelica with Opera San José, and  Chloé in Offenbach’s Daphnis et Chloé and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, in addition to covering the role of Susanna, with Opera Academy of California. She currently sings the role of Lucy in The Billy Goat’s Gruff with Opera San José’s Educational Outreach Program, and she regularly appears in the Opera San José Chorus. Other performed roles include Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Isabella (Rodriguez’s Suor Isabella), and First Spirit/Pamina cover (Die Zauberflöte) with SJSU Opera Theatre.

Jennifer attended the prestigious AIMS in Graz program, where she performed in a number of concerts open to the people of Graz and participated in a master class with world-renowned coach Kathleen Kelly. Awards include the Edwin Barlow Award at the 2012 SFBAC NATS Festival, and 2nd prize in the 2011 San José Woman’s Club Scholarship Award Competition. Additionally, Jennifer was a Regional Finalist for the 2012 NATS Artist Awards in Las Vegas.

Jennifer also loves musical theatre and has sung the roles of Maria (West Side Story) and Anna (The King and I). Upcoming performances include Kathy in Company at Los Altos Stage Company and Featured Ensemble in Evita at Broadway by the Bay.

A Musical Spring Bouquet

the WEST SACRAMENTO

COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA

Gordon Waters, Music Director

presents

Vaughan Williams

English Folk Song Suite

Bernstein songs from West Side Story

featuring Jennifer Alexis Mitchell, soprano

Gold A Tribute to the Duke

(Ellington, of course!)

Haydn Symphony No. 94

plus music of Bellini, Puccini, Akpabot, and Marquina

FREE ADMISSION

Sunday, March 16, 2014, 3:00 PM

Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave,

West Sacramento

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 7:30 PM

Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Blvd.

Sacramento, (near Fruitridge)

For more information, please telephone (916) 991-5262

Christmas Favorites for the Holidays

Summer Concert Celebration

To view a larger version of the program, just click on it! 
For more information, please call 916-991-5262

See you at the concert!

 

Spring Concert Weekend

Our Spring Concert is here! 

Spring Concert Program

Spring Concert 2012 featured our growing strings section with "Three Songs of Chopin," Berlioz' "Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9," "Wassail Dances," Respighi's "Ancient Dances & Airs for Lute, Suite 1" as well as beautiful support for soloist Nicole Water's spellbinding presentation of Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe" from the motion picture, "The Mission."   The concert opened with selections from Bernstein's "West Side Story" and finished with the big band sound of "A Salute to the Big Apple" featuring "Forty-Second Street," Lullaby of Broadway," and, of course, "New York, New York."

Holiday (Concert) Wrap

We rang in the holiday season 2011 with The Bells of Christmas medley (arr. by Bob Krogstad), followed by A Vaughan Williams Christmas, March of the Toys (from Babes in Toyland), and Corelli's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 8, featuring soloists:  Lorraine Crozier (violin), Gloria Kasparian (violin) and Robert Case (violincello).   We brought the first half of this wonderful program to a close with Calvin Custer's It's Christmastime.  The second half of our program featured WSCO favorites:  Winter Wonderland, Mel Torme's Christmas Song, O Holy Night, The Christmas Waltz, and, of course, Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride.

Flag Day Concert Features

Enjoy a free concert of festive and patriotic music with the West Sacramento Community Orchestra on Sunday, June 13, 3 p.m., at the Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento. With the theme, “Celebrate the American Spirit,” the orchestra presents familiar selections of musical Americana, including Copland’s” Hoe-Down,” Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” and a medley of Louie Armstrong’s signature tunes in “Satchmo.” In recognition of Flag Day (June 14), the orchestra also offers a musical salute to our armed forces. The program repeats on Tuesday, June 15, 7:30 p.m., at Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento.

Spring Concert: Curtain Up!

The West Sacramento Community Orchestra
Presents
A Spring Concert
With big band favorites and classical selections, including

*Salute to Ol’ Blue Eyes
(Sinatra signature tunes: Strangers in the Night, That’s Life, and Other Favorites)
*Curtain Up!
(There’s No Business Like Show Business, The Phantom of the Opera, One, Don’t Rain on My Parade, If He Walked Into My Life, Everything’s Coming Up Roses)
*Komm Süsser Tod (Bach-Stokowski)
*Sylvia (Ballet Suite) (Delibes)
*Academic Festival Overture (Brahms)
&
*Irish Medley (traditional) (arr. Ralph Herman)
(featuring the talents of our string orchestra)

FREE ADMISSION
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 4:00 PM (new time!)
Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:30 PM
Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Blvd.
(near Fruitridge)

For more information, please call 916-991-5262

Holiday Concert Brings Big Sound

The West Sacramento Community Orchestra
Presents

A Traditional Holiday Concert

Holiday favorites and classical selections, including

* Christmas on Broadway
* O Holy Night
* Christmas Festival

* Hansel and Gretel Overture

&
featuring our own holiday tradition
* Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride

Free Admission

Sunday, December 13, 2009, 3 p.m.
West Sacramento Civic Center (click for directions)
1110 West Capitol Avenue
West Sacramento

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Centennial United Methodist Church (click for directions)
5401 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento

* * *

For more information, please call 916-991-5262

Fall Concert Selections

For the first program of the new season
2009-2010
The West Sacramento Community Orchestra
presents

Karelia Suite, op. 11 (Sibelius)
"Peer Gynt" Suite No. 1 (Grieg)
Les Miserables - Selections (Schonberg)
Chorale Prelude "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (Bach)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Hooper)
A Tribute to Henry Mancini (Mancini/Custer)

FREE ADMISSION

Sunday, October 18, 3 p.m.
Civic Center Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento

Tuesday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Boulevard (near Fruitridge)