The town’s orchestra, the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra, is alive and well and has survived the year of Covid-19! As announced at the Arts Commission meeting Monday night, the WHSO in collaboration with the West Hartford Arts & Culture Collaborative will present a FREE outdoor concert at 4:00 pm on Saturday, June 5th, in the back of our West Hartford Town Hall. We have scheduled this event so people can have lunch and then go to a short concert, or go to the concert and then go out to dinner. The rain date for the event is June 13th.

Think of this as a Tanglewood-style event, so bring your lawn chairs or blankets and celebrate our community with movie music from Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Somewhere in Time by composers John Williams and John Barry. Broadway music from Les Miserables will feature tenor Steve Mitchell.  There will be additional music by Henry Mancini as well as patriotic music by John Philip Sousa along with a concert setting of Samuel Ward’s America the Beautiful.

The WHSO is under the musical direction of Richard Chiarappa and has been bringing the community together through music since 2002. Orchestra members span several generations and come from West Hartford and areas across the state. Anyone willing to volunteer to help at the concert should contact the orchestra at whsymphony@gmail.com. The WHSO will continue to monitor and comply with CDC, Town of West Hartford, and State of CT safety guidelines that are in place at the time of this outdoor concert.

Contact: www.WHSO.org, (860) 521-4362.