MIDC O A S T SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ROHAN SMITH, MUSIC DIRECTOR

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Music Collection Donated to MSO

In the fall of 2021, the MSO was honored to receive a substantial gift of music from Robert Carabia, a Maine musician now living in Florida. After his retirement, he needed to find a home for 25 boxes of mostly orchestral music that were part of his personal library. Wanting to keep it in Maine, he searched the internet for orchestras and found the MSO. Why us? He was pleased to see a name he knew, our manager, Ray Libby. Years ago, they both lived in Harrison, Maine; both play multiple woodwind instruments, and they gigged together over the years.

Carabia was music director and conductor of the community orchestra affiliated with the Portland Symphony, of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra, and of several orchestras in New York State and Virginia. He personally collected and purchased music for these orchestras over the years, resulting in the library he donated.

In addition, he is a music arranger and played professionally all over the country and the world as a "woodwind doubler." He performed with the Portland Symphony, the Maine Woodwind Chamber Ensemble, the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera Studio Orchestra.

In 2010 Carabia founded and became music director of the Ambassadors of Swing band in Port St. Lucie, Florida, where he currently lives.

The MSO is grateful for this gift and will perform some music from his collection this season and for years to come.