Season Opener

Last Friday we attended the preseason game for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The evening featured a sampling of the offerings of theforthcoming season which gets underway this Thursday.
I used the sports analogy because in addition to our belovedOrioles and Ravens, the BSO is a major league team. We are indeed fortunate tohave a world class orchestra with an “elite” conductor less than a half hoursdrive from HoCo.
Marin Aslop rocks. If you haven’t seen her put the orchestrathrough its paces, and you love music as I do, you owe it to yourself to catchat least one of their concerts.
There is a real HoCo connection to the BSO too, as a few ofthe orchestra members make their home here and contribute to the HoCo locomusic scene as well. For instance, according to her bio on the orchestrawebsite, violinist Wonju Kim is “a founding member of Music in Common,a Columbia-based concert series devoted to building new audiences for chambermusic that was created by her late husband, Daniel Malkin.”
This season’s line up includes Beethoven’s Eroica on October6th, the Vienna Boy’s Choir on December 8^th and Hairspray in Concerton January 25^th and 26^th.