The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) returns to the Eastern Shore for its 2013-14 season with a series of three concerts to be presented at Chesapeake College, Todd Performing Arts Center. This will be the 43rd
consecutive season that the Mid-Shore Symphony Society has been presenting this world famous orchestra to Eastern Shore audiences.
This season, instead of presenting the same program as the orchestra plays at the Meyerhof in Baltimore, the orchestra will perform three specially programmed concerts for Shore audiences.
The season opener on Friday, October 4 is a pops concert featuring the “Best of Broadway.” Stuart Chafetz conducts the orchestra and soloists Michele Ragusa and Christopher Johnstone in music by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Meredith Wilson, Leonard Bernstein and other broadway luminaries.
Chafetz, has conducted some of North America’s leading orchestras and is known for his ability to engage audiences with innovative concerts. Michele Ragusa comes direct from Broadway, where she’s been featured in many new productions and revivals. Christopher Johnstone spans the worlds of Broadway and Opera. The Boston Globe praised him as having “romantic hero sound with leading-man looks.”
Music by Mozart will be performed on Friday, January 24. “Totally Mozart” will include Symphony No. 25 also known as “Little G minor,” Horn Concerto No. 3 with French horn soloist Philip Munds, Overture to Marriage of Figaro, and Symphony No. 58 – “Prague Symphony.” The orchestra will be conducted by Joshua Weilerstein.
Weilerstein is a conductor and a violinist on the rise. Currently he’s the assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic and has conducted several leading European Orchestras and also performs as a violin soloist. California native Philip Munds is the BSO’s principal horn and teaches at the Peabody Conservatory.
The orchestra concludes its Eastern Shore series on Friday, March 28 with a program of Classical Favorites featuring Schubert’s “Symphony No. 8;” Vaughan Williams, “The Lark Ascending;”
Saint-Saens’ “Introduction and Rondo, Capriccioso;” and Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 4.” The program is conducted by Marcelo Lehninger with Madeline Adkins as violin soloist.
Brazilian-born Lehninger is another conductor whose career is taking off. He was selected by James Levine to be the assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has already conducted many orchestras in
North and South America and Germany and is an accomplished pianist and violinist. Madeline Adkins. BSO Associate Concertmaster. hails from a Texas family of four violinists, two cellists and a soprano. When not playing with the orchestra she performs as a soloist and chamber music musician.
Series tickets are $105. Single performance tickets are $40 and $10 for students and can be purchased at the door or by calling 410 827 5867. Visit us at: BaltimoreSymphonyontheShore.com and Facebook.com/BSOChesapeakeCollege are supported in part by the Maryland Arts Council, the Talbot County Arts Council, and the Kent County Arts Council.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concerts at Chesapeake College are supported in part by the Maryland Arts Council, the Talbot County Arts Council, and the Kent County Arts Council.
Mary Wood says
IS THERE A BUS FROM KENT COUNTY TO THE MID-SHORE CONCERTS ?
Tim Wilfong says
I’ve been waiting many years to finally hear Mozart’s 58th symphony. I’m sure it will be a night to remember.