Music Director Jed Gaylin and the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra open their 25th anniversary season with a free concert of blockbusters: Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," with pianist Eric Conway, and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. The curtain-raiser is Weinberger's "Shvanda the Bagpiper." The concert takes place at 8 p.m., on Saturday, Oct. 20, in Homewood's Shriver Hall Auditorium. Eileen Soskin of the Peabody Institute gives the pre-concert talk at 7 p.m.

The program is part of Free Fall Baltimore, a citywide effort to promote the arts. No tickets are required.

Featured works in later 25th anniversary concerts include the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1, Sunday, Nov. 11; Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Saturday, Dec. 1; Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, Sunday, Feb. 17; free kids concert, Saturday, March 8; Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Sunday, March 9; the winner of the first Hopkins Concerto and Aria Competition, Sunday, April 6; and Copland Symphony No. 3, Sunday, April 27. The orchestra will present the world premieres of works by Matthew Stofferahn on Dec. 1, and Gaetano Panariello on April 27.

For ticket information and other details, call 410-516-6542, e-mail hso@jhu.edu or go to www.jhu.edu/jhso.

The HSO is the only community orchestra in the city of Baltimore.

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