In Thursday’s (5/7) Baltimore Sun, Mary Carole McCauley writes about a concert series recently launched at Baltimore’s War Memorial, “a local landmark since it was dedicated in 1925.… Jackson Gilman-Forlini, who manages the historic site, says. ‘We’d like to bring in a younger, more diverse audience to see this beautiful building.’ The War Memorial now attracts about 40,000 visitors a year…. Gilman-Forlini wants to increase that to 55,000 by 2018, and thinks the concert series will help him do so.… The [series’] 10th musical event will be held this weekend, when a new local chamber orchestra called Symphony Number One presents its debut concert.” The Memorial’s largest stage can seat 1,100; Joshua Bornfield, composer-in-residence for the Johns Hopkins University, organizes “roughly two dozen concerts a year…. The first event in the series was February’s Concert for Peace organized by Tia Price … as a response to the death of Michael Brown, an African-American teen who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo…. ‘That was very touching, because the purpose of music is to bring people together who wouldn’t normally be in the same space, and to engage them in conversation,’ ” said Price.
Posted May 8, 2015
