The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performs in Kent County’s Wilmer Park on Saturday, August 6 at 7 pm as part of its Music for Maryland Tour, in which the BSO visits all Maryland jurisdictions over the next three summers.

The BSO travels to six counties in the first leg of the Music for Maryland Tour. Showcasing the Orchestra as one owned by the entire State of Maryland, performances are curated to celebrate each county’s hometown pride. Blue skies, sailboats, and flying flags set the scene as the BSO makes their final stop on the first leg of the Music for Maryland Tour in Kent County. Led by Assistant Conductor Jonathan Rush, the performance in Kent County celebrates the county’s waterfront with Jonathan Leshnoff’s Dancing Blue Crabs! The Orchestra closes the program with John William’s Superman March, in recognition of ‘Clark Kent’ and as lighthearted dedication to the county’s name.

The BSO is also approaching the Music for Maryland Tour as a means to engage in mini-residencies across Maryland. The BSO will share a free Peter and the Wolf program featuring BSO musicians and narrator Wordsmith, the BSO’s Artistic Partner, curated explicitly for young listeners and their families. The family performance will take place on August 6 at 11 am at the Chestertown Farmer’s Market.

Music for Maryland Tour reservations are Pay-What-You-Wish encouraged, but not required. For more information and ticket reservations, please visit BSOmusic.org/Summer.

About the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

For over a century, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has been recognized as one of America’s leading orchestras and one of Maryland’s most significant cultural institutions. The orchestra is internationally renowned and locally admired for its innovation, performances, recordings, and educational outreach initiatives including OrchKids. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs annually for more than 275,000 people throughout the State of Maryland. Since 1982, the BSO has performed at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, and since 2005, with the opening of The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD, the BSO became the nation’s first orchestra performing its full season of classical and pops concerts in two metropolitan areas. More recently, 2020 marked the beginning of a new era of artistry, innovation, stability, and digital accessibility, including the launch of the virtual platform BSO OffStage and a groundbreaking docu-concert series BSO Sessions. More information about the BSO can be found at BSOmusic.org.