Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra to perform in Ocean View March 10

Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, the only professional symphony orchestra on Maryland's Eastern Shore, is celebrating 20 years of bringing enchantment to audiences. The orchestra will present In Their Twenties with a pre-concert lecture at 2:15 and the concert at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 10, at Mariner’s Bethel Church in Ocean View.

The first half of the concert will feature Phil Munds on the French horn performing Mozart's “Horn Concerto No. 3,” in conjunction with a composition titled "Black Bend" by composer Dan Visconti, which was originally commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art and first presented in a version for string quartet.

The piece, which takes its inspiration from an old ghost story about a train derailment and a supposedly haunted stretch of Ohio's Cuyahoga River, features many special techniques in order for the unamplified stringed instruments to produce a raw, distorted tone more typical of electric guitars.

The show will also feature George Bizet's "Symphony No. 1" on the second half. Bizet and Mozart both composed when they were in their 20s.

For more information or to purchase tickets, go to www.midatlanticsymphony.org or call 888-846-8600.