2024-25 Season

48th Season

Concert #1 – Saturday, October 12, 2024
Awaken to the SSO’s 48th Season!

Location: Bel Air High School
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Sheldon Bair and Karen Gorden – Conductors

  • Johann Sebastian Bach/Ormandy – Sleepers Awake (Chorale Prelude)
  • Josef Haydn – Symphony No. 94 in G Major, “Surprise” (from the London Symphonies)
  • Peter Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty Waltz
  • John Williams – Theme from Angela’s Ashes
  • John Williams – Suite from Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Star Wars Episode VII)

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Concert #2 – Saturday, December 7, 2024
A Holiday of Drummers Drumming!

Location: Bel Air High School
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Sheldon Bair and Brian Folus – Conductors

  • Leroy Anderson – A Christmas Festival
  • Daniel Dorff – A Pachelbel Christmas
  • arr. Brian Folus – A Taste of Chanukah
  • Sheldon Bair – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
    Katie Stout, soprano
  • arr. Sheldon Bair – Christmas Sing Along
  • arr. Mark Hellem – Still, Still, Still
  • arr. Sheldon Bair – The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
    with steel drum ensemble Steel Pandemic
  • arr. Doris Reinhardt and Sheldon Bair – A Steel Pan Christmas
    with steel drum ensemble Steel Pandemic
  • arr. Jesse Ayers – Caribbean Joy (Joy to the World for steel pans and orchestra)
  • April and Welles Still – The Wooden Soldier, world premiere
  • arr. Sheldon Bair – The Twelve Days of Christmas

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Concert #3 – Date to be confirmed
The Gift of Melody – Darkness and Light!

Location: Bel Air High School
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Sheldon Bair – Conductor

  • Franz Schubert/realization by Brian Newbould – Symphony No. 7 in E Major, D. 729
  • arr. Stacey Gibbs – Ride the Chariot
  • Elaine Hagenberg – Illuminaire
    Michael Semancik, guest conductor
  • John Williams – “Hymn to the Fallen” from Saving Private Ryan
  • Kile Smith – Jubilate Deo, world premiere

Chors: Deer Creek Chorale – Martha Banghart, director; Goucher Choral Society

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Concert #4 – Date to be confirmed
A ‘Spiritual’ Spring ‘Tour’

Location: Bel Air High School
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Sheldon Bair – Conductor

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Idomeneo Overture, K. 366
  • Sir Malcolm Arnold – Clarinet Concerto No. 2
    Christopher Nichols, clarinet
  • William Grant Still – Fanfare for American Heroes
  • George Gershwin – Cuban Overture (Rumba)
  • Jesse Ayers and Charles Myricks, Jr. – There’s a Stirrin’ in the Water, a Celebration of the Spiritual
    Harford Combined Choirs – David Tramontana, Choral Master

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Concert #5 – Tuesday, June 3, 2024 (rain date: Tuesday, June 10)
Fundraiser Concert

Location: Hopkins Farm Brewery
Time: 7pm

Sheldon Bair – Conductor

Repertoire TBD

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Concert #6 – Date to be confirmed
Town of Bel Air Summer Concert Series

Location: Shamrock Park
Time: TBD
FREE

Sheldon Bair – Conductor

Repertoire TBD

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