EVENTS

May 9, 2009

Legendary Classics

Michi Wiancko, violinist

LEGENDARY CLASSICS

Today's headlines of layoffs, bailouts and bankruptcies add an unwelcome layer of stress to daily life. For a night of relief, join The Ohio Valley Symphony at 8 p.m. May 9 for a stimulus package of the spirit.

In the finale to the orchestra's 19th subscription season, Music Director Ray Fowler leads southeast Ohio's only professional orchestra in a program dubbed "Legendary Classics."

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July 4, 2009

JULY 4TH CONCERT

There will be fireworks on stage as well as in the sky on the 4th of July when The Ohio Valley Symphony presents their first outdoor concert on Saturday, July 4  in the Gallipolis City Park as part of the annual River Recreation Festival. The Summer Elizabeth Concert will be Saturday evening at 8 pm with patriotic pops, marches, jazz and other American music culminating in the fireworks over the river.

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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF MUSICAL EXCELLENCE
By Thomas Consolo

There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the Ohio Valley Symphony's prospects at its first performance. The only heat in the auditorium, from portable gas heaters, had been turned off before the concert because of their noise. The audience and performers huddled in their coats on the folding chairs borrowed from the city's funeral homes. Besides lacking seats and heat, the century-old hall -- until that night closed for a quarter century -- still needed extensive structural, mechanical and artistic renovation before it could be put back into regular service.

Then there was the challenge of building and basing a professional orchestra in a small city like Gallipolis.

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THE OHIO VALLEY SYMPHONY

The Ohio Valley Symphony, the only professional orchestra in the Ohio River Valley encompassing Gallipolis, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, is the resident ensemble of the 1895 Ariel Dater Hall. In 2005, benefactor Ann Carson Dater purchased and donated the building to provide a permanent home
 

for the symphony, the youth orchestra and the performing arts. Designed around the Ariel Theatre's magnificent acoustics, the OVS,  under the direction of Maestro Ray Fowler, performs a wide variety of music selected to satisfy every musical appetite.

In 2008 The OVS helped dedicate the new state of the art Lillian and Paul Wedge Auditorium located at the Point Pleasant Junior/Senior High School Complex.

OVS musicians hail from six states and play with a number of other prestigious orchestras such as the Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, West Virginia, Roanoke, Toledo and Pro Musica Symphonies. Some of the musicians are freelancers who play in more than one ensemble; many also teach at various institutions such as Ohio University, Marshall University, Ohio State University, Cincinnati Conservatory, West Virginia University, Shenandoah Conservatory and Capitol University.

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