Swimming and the Symphony: Deep Creek Lake in Maryland offers both

May 28, 8:44 AMPublicity ExaminerCarrol Van Stone

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Skip Case, Exec Dir, GLAF

What is better than one night of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra? Two nights! And that is exactly what you will get by attending the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival in Deep Creek Lake the weekend of July 17 and 18.  The performing arts festival which hosted Jazz and Tap Dance earlier in the season and will host Beatlemania Now on June 27 is clearly saving the best for last!

Dubbed the “must-attend weekend of the summer”, the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival promises to be exactly that. Here’s what is happening. On Friday, July 17, conductor Lawrence Loh and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will perform an evening of movie classics including music by Hollywood composers John Williams and Henry Mancini. Imagine one concert that includes both the themes to Close Encounters and Moon River! The following night, in the same convenient location of the Wisp Resort, on the ski-whitewater mountain side of Deep Creek Lake in McHenry, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will perform again. This time they will perform Rhapsody in Blue conducted by Andrews Cardenes. The audience will enjoy the sounds of Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture, Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue with Jon Kimura Parker, soloist and Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation).

Both evenings are sponsored by many local Garrett County businesses along with partial funding by the National Endowment for the Arts and managed by brilliant Executive Director Skip Case who has put together a 2009 GLAF Season like no other! Read here for more.

What better way to spend a weekend or week away this summer than in a place where you can have boating, swimming, fishing, the mountain coaster, whitewater rafting, golfing, and great restaurants with the enjoyment of a fantastic once-in-a-lifetime concert series too! Whether you come for one or both nights…the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will be the perfect ending to a fabulous day at Deep Creek Lake.

Read the review to the Jazz and Tap Dance event.

Read about Bealtlemania Now scheduled for Saturday, June 27.

Learn more about the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival and the 2009 perfoirming arts season.

Order tickets, click here.

Need a place to stay? Check out the Fox Den Lake House