2011-2012 Season
35th Anniversary Season - "A Season of Favorites, Old and New"
Remembrance & Hope
Saturday, September 10, 2011
- Humbert Memorial Band Shell, 2:00pm
- 127 Lee Way, Bel Air, MD 21014
Free Concert
A gathering to commemorate 9/11/01 through music and song.
Free and Open to the Public. Hosted by Jonathan Palevsky 91.5FM WBJC Program Director and On-Air Host.
The Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra and The Deer Creek Chamber Choir Performing Just Before the Autumn, an original piece written especially for this event by musician, teacher and composer Benny Russell, Harford Community College Adjunct Professor.
For more information, visit www.CenterForTheArtsHarford.org or call 410-838-2177. Made possible through the support of the Town of Bel Air, the Bel Air Cultural Arts Commission, the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, the Deer Creek Chorale and the Center for the Arts.
We're 35!
Saturday, October 8, 2011*
- Bel Air High School, 7:30pm
- 100 Heighe Street, Bel Air, MD 21014
- Preconcert Lecture: 6:30pm
For Ticket Info- Schubert - Alfonso und Estrella Overture
- Haydn - Symphony No. 35 in B-flat Major
- R. Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes
- Copeland - Fanfare for the Common Man
- Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite
- Sheldon Bair, conductor
Holiday Melodies and Peanuts
Saturday, December 3, 2011
- Bel Air High School, 7:30pm
- 100 Heighe Street, Bel Air, MD 21014
- Live Auction at Intermission
- Theldon Myers - Music for a Special Season
- William Grant Still - in the Western World
- Ellen Taaffe Zwiilich - Peanuts Gallery
- Jessel, arr. Donald Raff - Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
- Sir Malcolm Arnold - The Holly and the Ivy
- Jesse Ayers - Fire of the Living God (world premiere)
- arr. Bair - Christmas Sing-Along
- Sheldon Bair, conductor
- Joseph Satava, piano
Ghosts and Witches
Saturday, March 17 2012
- Bel Air High School, 7:30pm
- 100 Heighe Street, Bel Air, MD 21014
- Preconcert Lecture: 6:30pm
- Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky Korsakov) - A Night on Bald Mountain
- Ronald Royer - Clarinet Concerto: Echoes
- Beethoven - Cavatina from String Quartet Op. 130
- Dvorak - The Noon Witch, Op. 108
- Wagner - Prelude to “Die Meistersinger”
- Ronald Royer, guest conductor
- Sheldon Bair, conductor
- Kaye Royer, clarinet
The 1812 and The Grateful Dead
Saturday, May 19 2012
- Bel Air High School, 7:30pm
- 100 Heighe Street, Bel Air, MD 21014
- Preconcert Lecture: 6:30pm
Harford County Youth join the SSO in a Side-by-Side concert.
- Lee Johnson - Symphony No. 6 “Dead Symphony”
- Mozart - Two arias from Don Giovanni
- Tchaikovsky - Preghiera (Ave Verum Corpus) from Suite No. 4, “Mozartiana”
- Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
- Sheldon Bair, conductor
- Emma Zyriek, soprano
Concert Locations
Bel Air High School
100 Heighe Street
Bel Air, MD 21014
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
1200 Churchville Rd
Bel Air, MD 21014
Humbert Memorial Band Shell
Shamrock Park
127 Lee Way
Bel Air, MD 21014
