Conductor and Music Director Wayne Reinecke is beginning his 13th season as Conductor and Music Director of the orchestra. An Associate Professor of Music, Reinecke retired in 1996 after teaching for 18 years at Pasadena City College and for 39 years in California. He is the Founding Conductor of the Pasadena Community Orchestra. The Symphony Guild, the major support group for the orchestra, hosts a Concert Preview the Friday morning prior to each concert. Outstanding speakers knowledgeable in the field of music preview the concert program, illustrating their remarks with excerpts from the compositions.
Categories are piano, woodwinds, brass and percussion.
Entry deadline is January 10, 2001. Since 1988 the Symphony Association has sponsored a Music Enrichment Program. Currently the program reaches more than 10,000 fourth and fifth graders throughout the Greater Whittier Area. Funding is supplied by the Whittier Cultural Arts Foundation, the City of Santa Fe Springs, Supervisor Don Knabe and The El Rancho School District. Membership checks also may be sent to that address.