Errante: A Celebration Symphony! 📸 by Ancient Arbor Productions The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra was joined by special guests Vanguard Voices of Dearborn, MI -- Dr. Errante's hometown 🙏We are so grateful to all the patrons, season subscribers, Board members, WSO and WSYO families and friends who joined us for a deeply personal and heartfelt concert and celebration of our legendary Steven Errante, at his final concert after 39 seasons as our Music Director and Conductor. The End of An Era. As one era ends, another will soon begin--we are so happy that our incoming Music Director and Conductor Peter Askim was able to join us for the night--forming a bridge between two grand eras, past and future! Dr. Errante has been pivotal in bringing the WSO from a small, volunteer orchestra to where we are today, a cultural pillar in the Wilmington arts and music scene! We are brimming with optimism for a future of growth and excellence that Peter will lead us toward ✨ (fb)

🔮Here's your first peek at our season opening concert, where Peter Askim will make his debut as the new Music Director and Conductor of Wilmington Symphony Orchestra --- A New Era! Program: 🎼Gabriela Ortiz: Kauyumari 🎼Algernon Robinson: New Work (World Premiere) 🎼Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 🥁2025 GRAMMY-winning Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz’s incandescent "Kauyumari" kicks off the WSO’s New Era with a bang, its pulsing rhythms and relentless energy serving as a metaphor for this exciting new chapter in the orchestra’s history. Following the success of the world premiere of his commissioned work "Elegy for the Victims of 1898" at the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra’s November 2023 concert Project 1898, the WSO is proud to once again commission a new piece from Wilmington’s own Algernon Robinson. Drawing on his lifelong connection to the city and the orchestra, Robinson brings a fresh, forward-looking approach to composition, making him a visionary voice who bridges the WSO’s past and future, tradition and innovation. 🎻Tchaikovsky’s powerful, lyrical Symphony No. 5 journeys through human emotion, from tragedy to triumph. Encompassing the melancholy of the first movement, the timeless beauty of the second movement (whose Horn solo has inspired numerous popular songs) and rhythmic excitement, it leads to a glorious, joyous conclusion: setting the scene for an exciting season – and Era – to come. https://www.wilmingtonsymphony.org/classics-1-1 #ClassicalMusic #PeterAskim #AlgernonRobinson #GabrielaOrtiz 🎼🔮🎻 (fb)