Garrett Lakes Arts Festival (GLAF) is pleased to announce that orchestral music will return to Garrett County with The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, July 17 and 18, 2009. Conductor, Lawrence Loh, will kick off the weekend, Friday at 7:30 p.m. with a lively pops concert, “An Evening of Movie Classics,” featuring music by Hollywood composers John Williams and Henry Mancini. Conductor, Andrés Cárdenes, will lead the orchestra in a program of classical repertoire Saturday, July 18, which also begins at 7:30 p.m. The classical program “Rhapsody in Blue” will include Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, with piano soloist Jon Kimura Parker; and Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation).
Tickets for each concert are $35 for adults, $5 for students, and free for children five years and younger (tickets are required). Tickets can be ordered online at www.artsandentertainment.org or by calling the GLAF office at (301) 387-3082.
According to Skip Case, executive Director of Garrett Lakes Arts Festival, “Pittsburgh Symphony is a true world-class orchestra. Garrett Lakes Arts Festival and the Deep Creek Lake community embraced the world-class orchestra with grateful enthusiasm, at its local debut at the Wisp Resort in 2007. We are truly looking forward to their return in ‘09. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra prides itself in artistic excellence, a rich history of the world's finest conductors and musicians.”
Event sponsors for the symphony performances include Margaret Kaiser, M.D. and Eric Tribbey, Ed King and Doug McClive, M&T Bank Charitable Foundation, Jim O'Connell, Dr. Charles Walch (and Melissa, Nicole, & Maria).
Sponsor Partners for the PSO performances are David A. Burdock Funeral Home, Coldwell Banker Deep Creek Realty, David and Irene Eyer, Bill and Bonnie Fedde, Judy and Jan Finkel, Albert W. Getty, D.D.S., P.C., Iris and Peter Halmos Private Foundation, Robert and Marcene Huebner, Tom and Kathy Johnson, H. Stanley Lambert III, M.D., Barbara Leighton, M.D., Herbert H. Leighton, M.D., Paul and Willetta Mateer, Cherie S. Myers, Edward WS and Jeanne H. Neff, Rickie Rubenstein and Ben Leaderman, Lew Wheeler and Debi McDonnell, and Chuck and Becky Zellefrow
Season Sponsors of Garrett Lakes Arts Festival are First United Trust and Investments, Garrett County Chamber of Commerce, Property Owners’ Association of Deep Creek Lake and Wisp Resort. This performance is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. In addition, large gifts and grants have been given by the Audrey and Howard Naylor Family Trust, The Garrett County Arts Council and The Maryland State Arts Council.
For tickets and information about the program visit www.artsandentertainment.org or call the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival office at (301) 387-3082.
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