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2011-2012 Season News
SSO Kicks Off the Holidays!
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 >>
We’re 35!!!
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 >>
The SSO Remembers
After almost a week of rain, the cloudless sky over Bel Air was reminiscent of that fateful Tuesday ten years ago as Harford County residents gathered to remember and commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11. The short remembrance ceremony, hosted by radio personality Jonathan Palevsky from WBJC 91.5 FM ... Read more >>
2010-2011 Season News
One Season Ends, Another Begins
The Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra ended its 2010-2011 season with its annual outdoor concert in Shamrock Park and kicked off the Bel Air Summer Concert in the Park Series. With almost perfect weather for the show, Humbert Scholarship winner Edward Kim began the evening with a piano recital of Franck’s Violin Sonata ... Read more >>
Wow! From France and America A Resounding Success!
From France and America was a resounding success for the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, garnering four standing ovations in the acoustically near perfect Bel Air High School Auditorium. As Maestro Bair opened the concert, he spoke briefly with the audience to set the stage for the first work. He said he loved the impressionistic feeling imparted by Debussy in his highly regarded ... Read more >>
SSO holds chamber music concert to benefit the Judith Lloyd-Famous Scholarship Fund
The Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra held its annual chamber music concert this year for the benefit of the Judith Lloyd-Famous Scholarship fund on Sunday, April 10, 2011. This annual concert, again hosted by Saint Matthew Lutheran Church of Bel Air, saw an eclectic mix of music beginning with Schubert’s Octet in F major. The SSO Steel Drum Band, dressed appropriately in Hawaiian Shirts and accompanied by Maestro Bair on the drums... Read more >>
SSO Barters a Bride, Presents A Piccolo, and Does Dvorak!
The rafters were shaking again as the SSO presented its third concert of the season at the magnificent Bel Air High School Auditorium! After Concertmaster Wendy Bohdel tuned the orchestra, guest conductor and principle bassist Brian Folus took the stage and launched Smetana’s Polka from The Bartered Bride.... Read more >>
SSO's 34th Christmas Concert: A Delightful Present To The Community!
The SSO presented its 34th annual Christmas Holiday Concert, Of Holiday Brass and Christmas Bon-Bons at Bel Air High School. Music by Harford County residents Theldon Myer and Sheldon Bair was performed and C. Milton Wright graduate and New World Symphony Trumpeter Kevin Businsky performed Hayden's Trumpet Concerto and Scott's The Toy Trumpet... Read more >>
Maestro Bair Kicks Off The 34th Season With A Bang....And A Boom!
The SSO kicked off its 34th Season with an unforgettable concert on Saturday, October 16th. Keeping with tradition, the orchestra opened the season with The Star Spangle Banner and followed it immediately with Beethoven's Creatures of Prometheus Overture and Bartok's Viola Concerto.
The guest soloist and principal violist of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Sheridan Kamberger Currie, provided a flawless demonstration of viola dexterity... Read more >>
Take a “Musi-cation” at Scor! Rochester - Summer 2011
Want to grow this summer? Play some great music? Meet new friends? Be inspired to learn? Have lots of fun? Take a “Musi-cation” at Scor! Rochester & you’ll enjoy all that and more! It’s all happening again summer 2011, from July 13-16. Register by June 1st. Read more >>
