49th Season in 2025-2026
May Concert – Saturday, May 2, 2026
Spiritual Americana!
Location: Bel Air High School
Time: 7:30 pm
Sheldon Bair – Music Director
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
Aaron Copland, arr. Glenn Koponen – “Zion’s Walls”
with community choirs
Jesse Ayers and Charles Myricks, Jr. – “There’s a Stirrin’ in the Water”
with community choirs and baritone Kellen Johnson
community choir includes:
Havre de Grace High School Chamber Singers
Edgewood High School Chamber Choir
Bel Air United Methodist Church Chancel Choir
Bel Air Community Chorus
Michael Fili – The Old Line (Concert Fanfare for Brass and Percussion)
Brian Folus, conductor
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Washington Garcia, piano
George Gershwin, arr. Sheldon Bair – Prelude No. 2
Washington Garcia, piano
George Gershwin – Cuban Overture (Rumba)
October Concert – Sunday, October 12, 2025
A Melange of Art: Music, Pictures, and Dance
Location: STAR Centre, Havre de Grace
Time: 3 pm
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Sheldon Bair – Music Director
Karen Gorden – Guest Conductor
October – A Melange of Art: Music, Pictures, and Dances
Modest Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition
Karen Gorden, conductor
Promenade
Gnomus
The Old Castle
The Tuileries
Bydlo
Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
The Market Place of Limoges
Catacombs
The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
The Great Gate of Kyiv
Florence Price, orchestrated by William Grant Still – Dances in the Canebrakes
Nimble Feet
Silk Hat and Walking Cane
Tropical Noon (Cotton Dance)
Sir Malcolm Arnold – Scottish Dances
Pesante
Vivace
Allegretto
Con Brio
Antonin Dvořák – Slavonic Dances Op. 46, two selections:
No. 4 in F Major Sousedská
No. 8 in G Minor Furiant
December Concerts – Saturday, December 6, 2025
The Spirit of the Holidays
Location: Bel Air High School
Time: 11 am (shortened family concert) and 7 pm
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Sheldon Bair – Music Director
Georges Bizet – Farandole (March of the Kings) from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Manfred Reek – Fantasie im Schnee (Fantasy in the Snow) premiere
Percy Grainer/arr. Carl Simpson – Sussex Mummers Carol
Richard Maltz – Dance of the Inflatables (a Christmas lawn ornament fantasy) premiere
Dana Friedman and Robert Wendel – A Chanukah Overture
Brian Folus, conductor
Chip Davis, arr. Calvin Custer – Stille Nacht (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)
Julia Dather, cello
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Polonaise from Christmas Eve Suite
Bob Good – Olivia, The Witch and the Christmas Tree
Grace Callwood, narrator
Sheldon Bair – Christmas Sing Along
March Concert – Sunday, March 8, 2026
Overcoming Adversity Through Music:
A Holocaust Memorial Concert
Location: Bel Air High School
Time: 3 pm
Sheldon Bair – Music Director
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, arr. Jerry Brubaker – Sea Hawk, selections from the film
Brian Folus, conductor
Robert Dauber, arr. Sheldon Bair – Serenade
Yonatan Grinberg, violin
John Williams – Main Theme from Schindler’s List
Yonatan Grinberg, violin
Felix Mendelssohn – Incidental Music from Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
Mieczyslaw Weinberg – Cello Concerto, Op. 43 (1948)
Adagio
Moderato
Allegro (with a Cadenza)
Allegro
Lawrence Stomberg, cello
