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Assistant Conductor Jing-Huey Wei is a native of Taiwan who came to the US to study Viola at Boston University with Steven Ansell, Principal Violist of the Boston Symphony.  She is currently the director of the Middle School and Elementary String program for Arlington Public schools and founder of the Burnside Music Festival, a summer music program featuring Orchestra, Chamber music and Improvisation for string players of all ages.  Ms. Wei also is the principal Violist with the Waltham Symphony.

Sunday December 6, 2009, 3:00 pm

Seth Hamlin has been playing music professionally since he was 15.  He has traveled extensively and performed a wide variety of styles from Classical to Rock to Latin. These diverse experiences have in turn, influenced his own eclectic writing, composing works that combine Popular and Classical styles, performed by such groups as Thayer Symphony, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and his own band, Brass Planet.  His compositions appear on Cross Currents, a recording by contemporary group,  Row 12, and Mash it Up, Vol. 3, a compilation of Ska music.

He has recently completed a Diploma in Film Scoring from the Berklee College of Music and holds degrees in Trombone from New England Conservatory (where he also studied composition with Joe Maneri) and the University of Southern California.  He is also the Principal Trombonist with the Waltham Symphony.

 Jing-Huey Wei, Assistant Conductor

Seth Hamlin, Composer

Featuring the World Premiere of “Provençal” by composer Seth Hamlin

and conducted by WSO Assistant Conductor, Jing-Huey Wei.

Music Director Patrick Botti  conducts the WSO in Holiday Favorites:

Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite”, Handel’s “Messiah” with traditional

“Halleluyah” Sing Along, Custer’s arrangements of “Salute to the Big Bands” and “Salute to the Big Apple”.

Patrick Botti and the orchestra will also lead the audience in traditional

seasonal sing-along - Leroy Anderson’s “Christmas Festival”, “We Wish

You a Merry Christmas”, “Auld Lang Syne”, “Holiday Favorites”  - and will present his own arrangement of “Hannukah Festival”.

Naturally, a holiday pops concert would not be complete without the

Traditional “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson.

Mezzo-Soprano Allison Williams will join Patrick Botti and the orchestra in two arias from Handel’s “Messiah”, “He Shall Feed His Flock” and “Come Unto Him” .

This Holiday Pops Concert is the annual fund-raising event for the WSO and is not part of the regular season subscription.

The seating arrangement is by tables of ten people:

Light refreshments and food will be served at the tables.

A cash bar will also be available.

Individual Tickets: $35.00  or $30.00 if buying a table of ten.

Tickets available online or by calling the Waltham Symphony Orchestra at (781) 271-1050. A limited number of ickets will also be available at the door.

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