The West Virginia-based Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and Music Director John Devlin. Photo source: Wheeling Symphony Orchestra.
In Tuesday’s (1/6) Times Leader (Ohio), Eric Ayres writes, “The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra will welcome back piano prodigy Maxim Lando for its next performance on Saturday afternoon on Jan. 17 … The concert—’All My Memories’—will in many ways be a reflection on the pandemic era and how it has affected not only the orchestra but the Wheeling community as a whole. Back in March of 2020, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra was busy rehearsing with Lando as its special guest when the world literally got put on hold. ‘This one is very special because we are really focusing on what happened five years ago—COVID,’ said Gail Looney, WSO Director of Foundations and Government Relations, who is also the orchestra librarian and a performing member of the orchestra, playing flute and piccolo…. Next week’s concert will not only feature the return of Lando as a special guest performer but will also include Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, which had been a featured work in the concert in 2020 that had to be canceled…. The Festival Ideas includes a week of panels, discussions, recitals and other events designed to complement one of the WSO’s Masterworks concerts.”
