Now in its 45th year, the Mid-Shore Symphony Society joins Chesapeake College in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with three outstanding concerts for the 2015-16 season tailored to Eastern Shore Audiences.
The schedule includes the BSO’s Christmas season opener on Saturday, December 5 the complete Handel’s Messiah featuring Edward Polochick conducting the Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale with soloists to be announced later and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
The season’s second concert on Wednesday, January 13, will honor the orchestra’s centennial with its internationally acclaimed music director Marin Alsop conducting the orchestra in the Brahms Academic Festival Overture, a new oboe concerto by Christopher Rouse featuring the BSO’s principal oboist Katherine Needleman, and the program ends with Beethoven’s popular Symphony No. 3 “Eroica.”
The final presentation for the 2015-16 season will be an all American program including Copeland’s The Tenderland Suite, Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto featuring soloist Simone Porter. The evening concludes with a Gershwin Prelude, Catfish Row Suite from Porgy and Bess, and a surprise encore.
Tickets are $40, $10 for students, and $105 for the complete season. For best seats, call 410 827 5867. All performances in 2016 begin at 8:00PM with a preconcert conversation with the conductor at 7:30PM at the college’s Todd Performing Arts Center. The Messiah concert begins at 7:30PM.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Eastern Shore concerts are presented by the Mid-Shore Symphony Society and Chesapeake College and are supported in part by tick- et sales, grants from the Kent County Arts Council, the Queen Anne’s County Arts Council, the Talbot Council Arts Council, and generous contributions from friends of the BSO. Visit www.BaltimoreSymphonyontheShore.com
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