Residents across West Virginia and visitors to the state will soon have an opportunity to fish in public lakes, streams and rivers without paying for a fishing license.
The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra is bidding farewell to the 2014-2015 season by performing a series of masterpieces by great composers, both old and new, during their concert on May 15th, 2015 8:00 PM at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling.
This concert features Arvo Pärt’s La Sindone–a deep, mysterious, and emotional journey describing the Shroud of Turin. Pianist Norman Krieger will join the Orchestra to perform the energetic 3rd Piano Concerto of Rachmaninoff. Then, they’ll finish by shifting the spotlight to the orchestra members in Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra.
The Wheeling Symphony also recently announced their upcoming 2015-16 season. This series of concerts features classics like Stravinsky’s Firebird,Sibelius’s 7th Symphony, and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique as part of a French Festival. However, they are also premiering a co-commission of a piano concerto by American composer, Kenneth Fuchs. This will be a return for Fuchs who wrote Forever Free for the WSO for West Virginia’s Sesquicentennial.
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A brief overview of the WSO's 2015-16 season with excerpts of upcoming pieces.
Recently, WVPB hosted a pair of musicians from WVU to come perform live in-studio during Classical Music with Matt Jackfert. Albert Houde, Associate Horn Professor at WVU and Principal Horn with the WVSO, and Sun Jung Lee, collaborative pianist a...
Maestro André Raphel who served as music director of the WSO from 2003-2018, will be taking the podium once again at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling on Thursday May 15 to conduct La Valse by Maurice Ravel, to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the WSO as well as the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ravel.
This week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage will kick off a fresh new Spring season of live music from the Mountain State of West Virginia. This week's episode was recorded on Dec. 1, 2024 at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV with Stephen Kellogg, Jill Sobule, Mindy Smith, Caleb Caudle & The Sweet Critters, and The David Mayfield Parade.