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About the WSO
The Warren Symphony Orchestra Society was founded in 1972 and gave its first concerts during the 1973-74 season. Since that beginning, the orchestra has performed many hundreds of concerts in Warren and around metro Detroit. Local Recognition "The Warren Symphony, conducted by David Daniels, has always stood out among community orchestras for its ambition and excellence," writes Mark Stryker, music critic for the Detroit Free Press. The WSO was voted "Outstanding Community Orchestra" for the second time in three years, at the Detroit Music Awards given by the Motor City Music Award Foundation. 
Community Outreach
The Warren Symphony reaches some 6000 elementary students every year with its educational concerts. As a millennium celebration, the Symphony established its uniquely innovative program "Kids Composing," with the aid of a major grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. Elementary school classes actually composed music which was then performed by the Warren Symphony in concert. Orchestral Masterpieces The mainstays of Warren Symphony concerts are the great masterpieces of orchestral music that have enchanted audiences for centuries, performed by our area's top professional musicians and distinguished guest artists. The Warren Symphony is probably the only community orchestra ever to undertake a cycle of the monumental symphonies of Gustav Mahler-a composer whose new-found popularity has actually overtaken that of the beloved Tchaikovsky. |
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