The WHSO’s 21st season will begin on a spooky note, with a Halloween Costume Concert.

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For the first time in its history, the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra (WHSO) is opening its season with a Halloween program and hopes that all the audience – young and old – will be in costumes.

Adding to the mood, the orchestra members will also be in costumes. In addition, the orchestra will be joined by members of Kessel Temple, the Connecticut chapter of the national Light Saber Guild, who will demonstrate using light sabers, allow family photos to be taken with Guild members, and will partake in the Star Wars march accompanied by the WHSO.

The WHSO’s mission statement is to present children with fine orchestral music of all styles and this concert will certainly accomplish that goal. Classical Halloween-appropriate music will be carefully represented by Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Puccini’s La Tragenda from Le Villi, and In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg; Halloween-appropriate music from movies and musicals will be easily recognized by excerpts from The Pirates of the Caribbean, Frozen, Harry Potter, Phantom of the Opera featuring singer Christopher Stone, and, of course, Star Wars.

The concert takes place in the Roberts Theater on the Kingswood Oxford School campus on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 3 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased online at WHSO.org, by phone at 860-521-4362, or in the lobby the day of the performance. General seating is $20, seniors and parents accompanying children are $15, children are $5.

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