Bring a chair and a picnic dinner and join us for the SSO’s concluding concert of the season. The SSO kicks off the Bel Air Parks and Rec Summer Concert Series with a free outdoor concert at the Humbert Memorial Band Shell in Shamrock Park behind the Bel Air Library. A crowd of over 500 enjoy a picnic on the grass while listing to this concert of popular and patriotic music. Recipient’s of the William A. Humbert Memorial Scholarship Fund are frequently featured. Rain location is the Bel Air High School Auditorium.
Guest Conductor Ronald Royer opened the evening’s performance with Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, evoking both concerts themes of ghosts and witches and guests from Canada. Maestro Royer, a musician, composer, and currently Music Director of the Scarborough Philharmonic in Ontario, Canada, adeptly ... Read more >>
The SSO kicked off the Holidays with its annual Christmas and Holiday concert entitled Holiday Melodies and Peanuts. Opening the show was local composer and music icon Theldon Myers work Music for a Special Season. Myer’s holiday mood setting work was followed by the introduction of guest pianist ... Read more >>
The SSO opened its 35th concert season with a proclamation from Harford County Councilman “Capt’n Jim McMahan recognizing the vision and efforts of Maestro Sheldon Bair for his 35 years of dedicated leadership to the SSO. The proclamation briefly recounted the history and milestones the orchestra and Sheldon Bair had ... Read more >>