Volunteer Opportunities with
the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
Dear Past and Future HSO Volunteers,
For some of you, this message is a "Welcome!" For others, it's "Welcome back!" Whether you'll be new or returning next season, the orchestra will greatly appreciate your help.
HSO needs you most at concert time. You can greet patrons, answer questions, and direct people around the building. Tear tickets. Give out programs. Help elderly or disabled patrons to seats. Listen to the pre-concert talk and the concert, and alert the staff to any problems in the hall. Count tickets and audience members. Help collect sheet music and clear the stage after the concert. Help set up post-concert receptions, where you can meet the orchestra members and soloists. Help clean up after receptions. All these jobs are important for performances to run smoothly.
Here is the 2011-12 concert schedule:
(Performances are color coded by type of concert.)
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 8 pm
Volunteers needed from 6:15 - 11 pm
Symphonic concert, with pre-concert lecture and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, conductor
Program:
Witold Lutoslawski: Mala Suita (Little Suite)
Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 · Katie Mahan, piano
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 2 - 5:30 pm
Chamber concert
Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center, 3509 N. Charles St. (at University Parkway)
Jason Love, guest conductor
Featured works:
Michael Daugherty: Strut
Edward Elgar: Serenade in E Minor
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
Bela Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances
Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8 pm
Volunteers needed from 6:15 - 11 pm
Symphonic concert, with pre-concert lecture and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, conductor
Program:
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams)
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Goucher Chorus, Tom Hall, Director
JHU Choral Society, Mark Hardy, Director
Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 2 - 5:30 pm
Chamber concert
SDS Room, Mattin Center, N. Charles & 33rd Sts.
Vladimir Lande, conductor
Featured work:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)
Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 1 pm
Volunteers needed from 11:45 am - 2:45 pm
20th Annual FREE Concert for Children and Families
Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, conductor
Excerpts from Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka
After the performance, the audience is invited onstage to meet the musicians and see
their instruments up close
Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 1:15 - 6 pm
Symphonic concert with pre-concert talk and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, conductor
Program:
Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto · Clipper Erickson, piano
Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka
Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 2 - 5:30 pm
Chamber concert
SDS Room, Mattin Center, N. Charles & 33rd Sts.
Vladimir Lande, conductor
Featured work:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano, Opus 56 (Triple
Concerto)
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 1:15 - 6 pm
Symphonic concert with pre-concert talk and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, conductor
Program:
Performance by the 2011-12 HSO Concerto Competition Winner
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Opus 68
Concerts take place at three different halls on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore. Click here for road directions, parking information, and a campus map. Symphonic concert parking is in the underground South Garage (3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore 21218), for a $6 fee. We would appreciate your covering this cost, but will give you a free parking voucher if you ask for one when you arrive at Shriver on concert day. For concerts at the SDS Room and Interfaith Center, you can park for free in the neighborhood around N. Charles St. North Charles St itself will be under construction for the next 2 years. We'll try to send you "road closing" updates along with volunteer reminders.
Dress: Dark nice pants or skirt, white top, and comfortable shoes.
Baltimore City and County students qualify for Service Learning Hours for their HSO volunteer time. Please bring your form to each concert and ask the house manager to sign it for you.
You may sign up for as many or as few concerts as you want. Some people like to try volunteering at one concert, to see what it's like, before committing to others. Some people like to bring a relative or friend to work with them. If a relative or friend brings you to the concert, that person is invited to attend the concert for free as our guest. Whatever you choose is fine. If you sign up for a concert, you'll get a reminder a few days before the event, asking you to confirm that you'll be volunteering that day.
For more information and to sign up, call 410 516-6542 or write to hso@jhu.edu after July 11.
After 8 years with the orchestra, I'm now "retiring." The new manager, Nicoleen Willson, will be working with you next season. I'm sure she'll enjoy and appreciate you as much as I have. Thank you for all the volunteer service that you do to help the orchestra thrive.
Sending thanks and best wishes,
Edie Stern
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
201 Shriver Hall
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
410 516-6542
hso@jhu.edu
http://www.jhu.edu/jhso/
June 25, 2011