Saturday, May 1, 1999, 8:00 p.m.

“Symphony Firsts” Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Russell Steinberg Russell Steinberg: Symphony No. 1 (“City Strains”) Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Opus 68 Program Notes

Sunday, March 7, 1999, 3:00 p.m.

“Spring Stirrings” Pre-concert lecture at 2:00 p.m. with Charles Dempsey, Ph.D., JHU Department of Art History Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies Ottorino Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1947 Version) Program Notes

Saturday, December 5, 1998, 8:00 p.m.

“Opus Opera!” Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Jonathan Palevsky Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to Nabucco Giuseppe Verdi: Act I from La Traviata Carla DelVillaggio, soprano Richard Crawley, tenor Giuseppe Verdi: Act II from La Traviata Margot Bos Stambler, soprano Fenlon Lamb, mezzo-soprano Program Notes

Saturday, October 24, 1998, 8:00 p.m.

“Art Creates Artists” Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 p.m. with Max Derrickson Samuel Adler: Art Creates Artists Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35 Xiao-po Fei, violin Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Opus 90 Program Notes

Friday, September 11, 1998, 7:30 p.m.

Benefit Concert for Operation Smile Antonín Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Opus 104 Bonnie Thron, cello Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Opus 18 Linda Pio-Roda, piano