Founded more than 30 years ago as a community orchestra, the WCO grew steadily but suddenly had money problems, causing abrupt cancellation of a season. It took a long time to recover the organization's sense of well-being, then in 1998 its long-time conductor David Lewis Crosby was felled by a heart attack.

In early 2000, the WCO named a new music director, Andrew Sewell. This provided a major lift for the organization, which seems to be moving upward again, surely a good thing.

• Rossini, Moravec, Mozart: February, 1992.
  
  
• "Concerts on the Square": July, 1992.
  
  
• Diamond, Dvorak, Shostakovich: May, 1993.
  
  
• "Concerts on the Square": July, 1993.
  
  
• Geminiani, Vivaldi: September, 1993.
  
  
• Mozart, Gounod, Strauss: January, 1994.
  
  
• "Concerts on the Square": July, 1994.
  
  
• Mozart: October, 1994.
  
  
• Purcell, Ives, Alexander: November, 1994.
  
  
• Haydn, Walker, Mozart: February, 1995.
  
  
• Bach, Barber, Schubert: February, 1997.
  
  
• "Concerts on the Square": July, 1997.
  
  
• Mozart: May, 1998.
  
  
• Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Beethoven: October, 1999.
  
  
• Ravel, Bizet: January, 2000.
  
  
• Mozart, Vivaldi, Haydn: September, 2000.
  
  
• Respighi, Finzi, Mozart: January, 2001.
  
  
• Hindemith, Beethoven, Finzi, Mozart: March, 2001.
  
  
• "Concerts on the Square": July, 2001.