Overture Magazine: 2016-2017 Season May-June 2017 | Page 7

{ I n H i story } In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated and presented his Six Concerts à plusieurs instruments (Six Concertos for several Instruments) to the Margrave of Brandenburg. Written with a notably rich orchestration for the Baroque era, Bach hoped to please the Margrave with his composition, perhaps angling for a court appointment. Sadly, Brandenburg never responded. Margrave of Brandenburg { I n O u t r e ac h } Concertmaster Carney performs with students in Montgomery County For the third consecutive year, BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney visited Holton-Arms School in Bethesda for the annual Holton-Arms Invitational Strings Festival. As part of the BSO on the Go educational initiative in Montgomery County, Carney coached students and was the featured soloist on the March 21 concert. He performed with the String Festival’s Upper School Orchestra in the first move- ment of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 and in Robert Kerr’s Irish Legend. Jennifer S. Horne, a music teacher at Holton-Arms, served as Festival Director and Conductor. With BSO participation coordinated by Richard Spero, community liaison for BSO at Strathmore, this year's festival brought to- gether students from 14 different area schools, both private and public, including St. Alban’s School, Greenbelt Middle School and Walt Whitman High School. Participants from Holton-Arms included Festival Concertmas- ter Laila Fritz. The BSO shares Holton-Arms’ commitment to “education not only of the mind, but of the soul and spirit.” { I n H ouse } Show House supports BSO youth programs When Frederick and Penelope Deye Owings Price built Mayfair in 1812, they probably couldn’t have pictured the makeover it received this year as the 40 th Symphony Decorators’ Show House. The Federal-style house, constructed on land originally owned by Mayfair Captain Thomas Cockey Deye, was purchased in 1972 by the Vogel family, who lived there for 45 years. Some 20 interior designers have taken over the stone house to show off their talent —and sell their wares — to benefit the Baltimore Symphony Associates (BSA). The Show House will be open through Sunday, May 21. Tickets, $25 in advance or $30 at the door, are not date specific. You may use your ticket any time during normal operating hours. All proceeds support the educational programs of the BSO including OrchKids, the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras and Midweek education concerts, which reach more than 55,000 students a year. For information, BSOmusic.org/showhouse, [email protected] or Facebook.com/BSDSH { I n D r ea ms } The BSO Academy is fantasy camp for amateur musicians The BSO’s Schuyler Jackson, left, with Mateen Milan, Academy Week participant Each year, adult musicians work with professional players from the orchestra at the BSO Academy week. The week, described by The New York Times as a “fantasy camp for grown-ups,” culminates in a performance on the Meyerhoff stage, this year on Saturday, July 1. Now in its 8 th year, the BSO Academy draws about 100 players from throughout the U.S.— and sometimes abroad — who dream of being on the stage. They attend classes and workshops, hang out with and play alongside BSO musicians and practice, practice, practice. Led this year by Nicholas Hersh, BSO associate conductor and Academy conductor, the two Academy Orchestral Program ensembles will perform Verdi, Mahler and Strauss. A smaller chamber orchestra, led by BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney, will perform the Overture from Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro as well as Schubert’s Third Symphony and Beethoven’s Seventh. May– June 2017 | O v ertur e 5