Volunteer Opportunities with
the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
Dear Past and Future HSO Volunteers,
Some of you have been helping the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra for years. Others of you have expressed interest in starting to volunteer with the orchestra this season. All are welcome, and your help is greatly appreciated.
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 concert and alert the staff to any problems in the hall. Count tickets and audience members. Help collect sheet music after the concert. Help set up post-concert receptions, where you can meet the orchestra members and soloists. Help clean up after receptions.
Here is the 2009-10 concert schedule:
(They are color coded by type of concert.)
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 8 pm
Volunteers needed from 6:15 - 11 pm
Symphonic concert, with pre-concert lecture and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, with Terrence Wilson, piano
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 1:45 - 5:30 pm
Chamber concert
Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center, 3509 N. Charles St. (at University Parkway)
Featured works: Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite III
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Opus 110a
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8 pm
Volunteers needed from 6:15 - 11 pm
Symphonic concert, with pre-concert lecture and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Charles Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass, and a selection of opera arias and ensembles
Lori Hultgren, soprano; Richard Crawley, tenor; Robert Cantrell, bass
Johns Hopkins Choral Society and Goucher Chorus
Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 1:45 - 5:30 pm
Chamber concert
SDS Room, Mattin Center, N. Charles & 33rd Sts.
Featured work: Argento: Royal Invitation (Homage to the Queen of Tonga)
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 1 pm
Volunteers needed from 11:45 am - 2:45 pm
18th Annual Concert for Children and Families
Shriver Hall
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Beethoven/P.D.Q. Bach: Symphony No. 5, Allegro con brio, with play-by-play sports
commentary
Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 1:15 - 6 pm
Symphonic concert with pre-concert talk and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Lee Pui Ming: Neptune (World Premiere), with Ms. Lee as piano soloist
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 7 pm
Volunteers needed from 5:45 - 9:30 pm
Chamber concert
Shriver Hall
Featured work: performance by the winner of the 2010 Hopkins Symphony Concerto
Competition
Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 3 pm
Volunteers needed from 1:15 - 6 pm
Symphonic concert with pre-concert talk and post-concert reception
Shriver Hall
Bach/Stokowski: Komm Süsser Tod (Come, Sweet Death)
Berg: Violin Concerto, with Stefan Jackiw, violin
Franck: Symphony in D Minor
Concerts take place at three different halls on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore. At HSO’s web site, www.jhu.edu/jhso/, you can get road directions, parking information, and a campus map. Symphonic concert parking is in the underground South Garage (3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore 21211), for a $5 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 on N. Charles St.
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. The house manager can sign the form on concert day.
You may sign up for as many or as few concerts as you want. Some people like to try volunteering at one concert before committing to others. Some people like to bring a relative or friend to work with them. Whatever you choose is fine. I'll send out a reminder e-mail before each concert, asking whether you'd like to volunteer that day.
For more information and to sign up, call 410 516-6542 or write to hso@jhu.edu.
Thanking you for your help, and looking forward to working with you,
Edie Stern
General Manager
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/
July 29, 2009