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Orchestra set to take stage this Sunday at PAC

(April 22, 2022) The Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2021-2022 season in April with a program featuring Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major, with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinet Yao Guang Zhai as guest soloist.

The concert also includes Weber’s Overture to Euryanthe and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2.

“We bring our 24th season to its finale with some of the most uplifting, energetic and rousing of the classical and romantic repertoire,” said MidAtlantic Symphony Orchestra Music Director Julien Benichou. “We are particularly pleased to have Yao Guang Zhai join us for the Clarinet Concerto, one of Mozart’s most haunting and technically challenging compositions.”

The concert will be presented on Sunday, April 24 at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, located inside the Ocean City convention center on 40th Street.

Individual tickets cost $50. In addition, a limited number of free tickets are available for students 18 years and under, with accompanying parents admitted for $10 each. Reservations are required for the free tickets, and may be made by calling 888846-8600,

For additional information or to order tickets, visit www.midatlanticsymphony.org. Tickets also may be ordered by telephone at 888-8468600, or purchased at the door.

To ensure the safety of its audience members and musicians, the Orchestra requires proof of covid-19 vaccination for everyone entering venues.

The only professional symphony orchestra serving southern Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council; the Talbot County Arts Council; the Worcester County Arts Council; the Sussex County, Delaware Council; and the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, Inc.

Annual spring event hosted by county group, May 6 at Pocomoke Community Ctr.

(April 22, 2022) The Worcester County Historical Society will hold its annual spring dinner meeting at the Pocomoke Community Center on Market Street, Friday, May 6.

Dinner guests will learn about Worcester County’s past from Dr. Ray Thompson, retired history professor at Salisbury University, while enjoying a meal of chicken and dumplings with all the fixings prepared by the Ladies Auxiliary.

Dr. Thompson will speak to the members and guests about the early history of Worcester County. He said that the Eastern Shore has been fortunate to have the oldest continuous records in British-speaking America starting in 1632 to help people understand who the earliest settlers were.

He called them hearty men and women who lived in the frontier environment away from civilization. His talk will look into who they were and their lifestyles and how they transformed the Eastern Shore.

He will trace the movements of the settlers up the peninsula of Virginia into Maryland’s Eastern Shore and into Delaware. Their economic, political, cultural and religious societies led to the fundamentals of America today.

He also plans a power point to supplement his discussion.

Dr. Thompson, along with Sylvia Bradley, was the co-founder of the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University in 1983.

His 45-year career at the university included teaching history and serving as chair of the history department. Today he continues speaking and doing research in local history.

Doors will open for the event at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $25 per person and can be purchased by sending a check to: Robert Fisher, WCHS Treasurer, 230 South Washington St., Snow Hill, Maryland 21863. The deadline for reservations for the dinner, which is open to the public, is April 29.

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