"Concert of Remembrance"

Sunday, September 11, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. South River High School

Please join us as the LSO opens our season to commemorate the ten year anniversary of September 11th. We will honor our national heroes by performing some of the most powerful and emotional American music of the 20th century such as Barber's Adagio for Strings, Howard Hanson's The Requiem and William Shuman's A Prayer in Time of War. We will conclude with Copland's epic Lincoln Portrait with special guest narrator Dr. Marc Boensel, retired member of the US Naval Academy Band and founder of the Annapolis Wind Symphony.

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"A Chamber Music Concert"

October 23, 2011 at 3:00 PM South River High School

One of our most celebrated local pianists, William Bloomquist, will join forces with the LSO members Kerry Willingham (oboe) and Michael Cahall (violin) to provide you an afternoon of enchanting music in a Chamber Music Concert with works by Brahms, Poulenc and American composer Robert Muczynski.

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"The French Connection"

Sunday, January 15, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. Annapolis High School

Guest conductor Taras Krysa from the University of Las Vegas will lead the LSO in an array of music inspired by the champions of French composition such as Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2 and Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. We are also excited to feature solo violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv in Barber's Violin Concerto. This concert is filled mystifying orchestral colors and imagery—an afternoon not to be missed!

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"LSO Gala"

Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. Homestead Gardens

Please join us in the LSO's 2nd annual fundraising event hosted by Homestead Gardens (Davidsonville, MD). As you stroll through the gardens on this enchanted evening, you will hear intimate chamber music performed by members of the LSO, while tantalizing your taste buds with an assortment of food and wine from our local favorites.

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"Rising Stars"

Sunday, April 22, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. Annapolis High School

Bring your friends and family as the LSO continues our season, joined by our Rising Stars! This concert will feature our local champions from the annual Anne Arundel Music Teachers Association piano competition, along with Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Stravinsky's brilliant Firebird Suite—a concert appropriate for all ages, come join the fun!

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"The Tragic & the Triumphant"

Sunday, June 10, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. South River High School

Our season closes with Tchaikovsky's exuberant and triumphant Symphony No. 5--one of the most heroic works of all time. This concert will also feature James Nickel from the National Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Concerto for Horn No. 4, along with Rossini's Overture to La gazza ladra (the Thieving Magpie), a melodramatic opera filled with tragedy and despair. Be sure to join us in this celebrated grand finale as we conclude the 2011-2012 season Champions & Heroes!

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Except where noted all performances are held at the South River High School, Edgewater, MD