Concert also scheduled in community on March 11

(Feb. 8, 2018) The Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, the only professional symphony orchestra on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, is celebrating “Reaching Ever Higher,” 20 years of bringing enchantment to audiences.

The group will present “A Roaring Movies Valentine” at Community Church in Ocean Pines on Saturday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The concerts will celebrate romance with silent movies and the music of the “Roaring Twenties.” Tickets cost $45.

The MSO will present “In Their Twenties” on Sunday, March 11. There will be a pre-concert lecture at 2:15 p.m. at Community Church in Ocean Pines, followed by the concert at 3 p.m.

The first half of the concert will feature Phil Munds on the French horn performing Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3, in conjunction with a composition titled “Black Bend” (2005) by composer Dan Visconti, which was originally commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art and first presented in a version for string quartet.

The piece, which takes its inspiration from an old ghost story about a train derailment and a supposedly haunted stretch of Ohio’s Cuyahoga River, features many special techniques in order for the unamplified stringed instruments to produce a raw, distorted tone more typical of electric guitars. “In Their Twenties” will also feature George Bizet’s “Symphony No. 1” in the second half, who along with Mozart, both composed when they were in their 20s.

Tickets cost $45.

The MSO, whose mission is “to enrich life in the Mid-Atlantic region through the power of live classical music,” is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council, the Talbot County Arts Council, the Worcester County Arts Council, Sussex County, Delaware and the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, Inc.

Tickets to the concerts are available online at midatlanticsymphony.org, or by calling 888-846-8600. For further information, visit midatlanticsymphony.org.