39th Season
Listed are the six concerts in the SSO concert series. Concerts #1, 2, 3, and 4 are available as a subscription series. Concert #5 is a free concert presented al fresco.
Concert #1
Friends and A Game of Cards
Three Masterworks!
October 10, 2015, at 7:30PM | Bel Air High School
Sheldon Bair – Conductor
Washington Garcia – Piano
- Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 266, featuring Washington Garcia on piano
- Stravinsky – Jeu de Cartes (Game of Cards)
- Rossini – The Barber of Seville: Overture
Concert #2
Friends and A Snowman
We’re Walking in the Air…
December 5, 2015, at 7:30PM | Bel Air High School
Sheldon Bair – Conductor
Carolyn Black-Sotir – Narrator and Soprano
- Korngold – The Snowman: Overture
- Howard Blake – The Snowman, featuring Carolyn Black-Sotir, narrator and soprano
- Daniel Dorff – Pachelbel’s Christmas: A Merry Melange for Orchestra
- Grainger – The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol
- arr. Brian Folus – A Hanukkah Celebration
- arr. Bair – A Christmas Sing-Along
Concert #3
Friends and Collaborators
Dvorak’s Fabulous New World Symphony!
March 5, 2016 at 7:30PM | Bel Air High School
Sheldon Bair – Conductor
Joel Weszka – Clarinet
Viktor Khodyko – Viola
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- Neil Anderson – Himmelspach – Qui Vivra Verra
- Max Bruch – Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra, Op. 88, featuring Joel Weszka on clarinet and Viktor Khodyko on viola
- Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”
Concert #4
Friends and Family
Side-by-Side with the SSO!
May 7, 2016, at 7:30PM | Bel Air High School
Sheldon Bair – Conductor
Harford County Public Schools’ finest All-County Orchestra students
- Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor
- Schumann – Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120
- Bair – Flourish for Orchestra
- Gershwin – Cuban Overture (Rumba)
- Tchaikovsky – Marche Slave
The SSO welcomes Harford County Public Schools’ finest musicians in this annual “side-by-side” concert.
Concert #5
Free Bel Air Summer Concert Series
June 5, 2016 at 7:00PM | Humbert Memorial Band Shell
Kickoff the summer with this annual Bel Air Outdoor Summer Concert event. Bring a picnic and blanket and join the SSO for some tunes under the trees.
Sheldon Bair – Conductor
- Gershwin – Cuban Overture (Rumba)
- Soussa – The Fairest of the Fair
- Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
- Rossini – Barber of Seville Overture
- Gounod – Funeral March
- J. Williams – Hymn to the Fallen
- Tchaikovsky – Marche Slav
- Bair – Flourish for Orchestra
- Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever
