Ticket Office

For the first time since the blizzard of 1996, when pianist Evgeny Kissin's recital and other concerts fell victim to massive drifts of snow, bad weather forced the cancellation of a performance at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall last night.Hurricane Floyd meant the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and pianist Peter Roesel didn't perform their program of Prokofiev, Wagner and Schumann.The BSO and soloist will take the stage tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 11 a.m. (The Schumann is not on the Saturday program.

Wide receiver Jermaine Lewis says he believes he passed his first test, even though he didn't catch a single pass Saturday night in the Ravens' 19-14 win over the Chicago Bears.Despite being only 5 feet 7 and weighing just 172 pounds, Lewis said he had a solid day blocking for a running attack that finished with 197 yards.There was concern that Lewis, who played the slot or inside receiver his first two years in the league, would have problems getting off the line of scrimmage against more physical and talented cornerbacks on the outside.

The public will have its first opportunity on Saturday to buy single-game tickets for the Ravens' season when the team opens its ticket office at the new stadium.Separately, the team is negotiating with Aretha Franklin to give a free concert outside the stadium on Sept. 5, the eve of its regular-season opener.This Saturday, only tickets to the preseason games will be sold: Aug. 8 against the Chicago Bears and Aug. 24 against the Philadelphia Eagles.Single-game tickets for the regular season, which begins Sept.

In 1994 when she was only 17 years old, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama became one of the youngest winners in the history of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. While the teen-age Ngwenyama is still a student at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, she's already enjoying an international career.This brilliant young musician joins conductor Daniel Hege and the Baltimore Symphony next week for a performance of Bela Bartok's Viola Concerto in the orchestra's sixth annual celebration of African-American talent, "Live, Gifted and Black."

I HAVE already said my farewells to Memorial Stadium, thanks. But Joey Amalfitano, who still bleeds Baltimore Colts blue, had to have tickets to the last game. "Just gotta be there," he says. So he drove in from the 'burbs to the Ravens ticket office on 33rd Street in Wednesday morning's cold drizzle."At 9 o'clock, no one was there, and that made me grumpy," Joey says. "But at 9:07, this frazzled but friendly lady drove up in a white Pontiac, said she'd been stuck in Beltway traffic. She hurried into the ticket office and sold me two $35 seats, seven seats apart, in the bleachers.

In addition to preparing for this afternoon's playoff opener, the Orioles yesterday also had to deal with irritated fans who -- because of an oversight by a printer for Major League Baseball -- did not receive their postseason tickets.About 500 season ticket holders are affected. Arkansas-based Weldon, Williams and Lick Printers discovered, at 3 p.m. yesterday, that it had printed all but those tickets. Affected fans who arrived at Camden Yards yesterday were issued seat location passes for use today and tomorrow.

By the time the Ravens game began in New York at 1 p.m. yesterday, the ticket-buying crowd at Memorial Stadium had virtually disappeared. But for about 3 1/2 hours yesterday morning, business at the ticket office was booming as individual game tickets for the regular season went on sale.The Ravens sold 18,000 tickets yesterday, according to Roy Sommerhof, Ravens director of ticket operations, including all 6,000 that were available for the Sept. 1 opener against the Oakland Raiders and the Dec. 1 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Individual game tickets for the Bowie Baysox will go on sale tomorrow, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Prince George's Stadium ticket office.Ticket office hours will be Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., until the start of the season.On game days, the ticket office will open at 10 a.m. and remain in operation until the middle of the fifth inning. Telephone ticket orders must be made by noon for an evening game and by the end of the previous day for a 2:05 start.Fans may purchase their tickets in person at the stadium ticket windows or may phone in credit card orders (box seats only)

Season-ticket holders who want to purchase preferred tickets for the Orioles' three exhibition games at Camden Yards, April 22-24, will be able to buy them beginning today through Wednesday, at the Orioles' ticket office.Yesterday, The Sun incorrectly reported when the tickets would be available. The Sun regrets the error.The exhibitions will be against the Colorado Rockies at 1:35 p.m. April 22, and against the Philadelphia Phillies at 1:35 p.m. April 23 and at 7:05 p.m. April 24.Tickets for the general public go on sale at 9 a.m. today at the Orioles ticket office, TicketMaster outlets and Orioles baseball stores.

Orioles fans are back, and they have brought their credit cards.Ticket sales for Orioles games were extremely brisk yesterday, the first day of business after baseball owners announced plans to start the regular season.Orioles officials estimated fans bought 25,000 individual game tickets yesterday, a figure they said was the highest for an American League East team. The New York Yankees sold about 3,000 tickets yesterday, and the Toronto Blue Jays haven't yet begun selling tickets, Orioles officials said.

Joseph B. Codd, who memorized the names of the Baltimore Orioles season ticket holders and their seat locations during his five decades in the club ticket office, died of pneumonia Tuesday at his Oak Crest Village retirement home in Parkville. He was 93. Born in Baltimore, he was raised above a bar his father owned at Hoffman and Ensor streets. He attended St. Paul's Parochial School and Loyola High School. After serving in the Army in Germany during World War II, he worked in real estate with his sister, Marie Codd, who had a flourishing sales and rental business in the Mount Vernon section of downtown Baltimore in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Truck racing Monster Jam Where -- 1st Mariner Arena When -- Tonight, 8; tomorrow 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. What now? -- If you are tired of the artistry of the Winter Olympics, then get ready for the car-crushing excitement of the Monster Jam. Some of the trucks scheduled to appear include Grave Digger, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Taz, Air Force, Black Stallion and Iron Warrior. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for kids (all seats are $2 more on the day of the show) and are available at 410-347-2006 or at ticketmaster.

COLLEGE PARK - University of Maryland football games against Northern Illinois and Temple have reached sellout status, athletics department officials said today. The sellouts of the first two games, to be played on Sept. 4 and 11, brings to five the number of Maryland football games to sell out for the 2004 season. Maryland already announced sellouts for home games against Georgia Tech (Oct. 9), N.C. State (Oct. 16) and Florida State (Oct. 30). Fans still interested in purchasing Temple tickets should contact the Terrapin Ticket Office on the morning of Tuesday, Sept.

With just under two weeks remaining until Johns Hopkins and Maryland meet for the 100th time in men's lacrosse, the Johns Hopkins ticket office has sold out its allotment of tickets for the game. As of noon today, Johns Hopkins had distributed all 8,500 tickets it had for the game. The University of Maryland ticket office had just under 1,000 tickets remaining from its allotment of 1,500 tickets for the game. Fans of either team who have not already purchased tickets for the game may do so in one of three ways.

Harford Community College will present Capitol Steps, the musical satire company from Washington, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Amoss Center, 200 Thomas Run Road, Bel Air. The former congressional staffers in the show focus on topical humor, comic one-liners and witty songs, with an up-to-the-minute take on politics. Tickets range from $12 to $24, and are available at the HCC Ticket Office in the Chesapeake Center. For more information or to order tickets by credit card, call the HCC Ticket Office at 410-836-4211 or 410-879-8920, Ext. 211.

Your assignment, Mr. Broadwater - and we know you'll accept it - is to replace the No. 1 rushing quarterback in the nation. As it did for seven games last season, the Naval Academy football team will take its chances with you. Thrust into the lead role again after Brian Madden's season was devastated by a serious knee injury late in the spring game, Brian Broadwater has bulked up 10 pounds to 205 and is ready to meet the challenge. "I did a lot of strength work in the off-season," Broadwater said yesterday at the annual media day at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Spring training ticket guide Following the Orioles in Florida? Here's information on ordering tickets for home games in Fort Lauderdale, and on the road for games at other ballparks. (Approximate mileage from Fort Lauderdale Stadium to other Florida ballparks, obtained online through MapBlast, is noted in parenthesis.) Orioles, Fort Lauderdale Stadium: $12 for box seats, $9 reserved grandstand and $6 for general admission outfield seats with seating on a first-come basis. Other bargains include half-price ($3)

For the first time since the blizzard of 1996, when pianist Evgeny Kissin's recital and other concerts fell victim to massive drifts of snow, bad weather forced the cancellation of a performance at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall last night.Hurricane Floyd meant the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and pianist Peter Roesel didn't perform their program of Prokofiev, Wagner and Schumann.The BSO and soloist will take the stage tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 11 a.m. (The Schumann is not on the Saturday program.

Wide receiver Jermaine Lewis says he believes he passed his first test, even though he didn't catch a single pass Saturday night in the Ravens' 19-14 win over the Chicago Bears.Despite being only 5 feet 7 and weighing just 172 pounds, Lewis said he had a solid day blocking for a running attack that finished with 197 yards.There was concern that Lewis, who played the slot or inside receiver his first two years in the league, would have problems getting off the line of scrimmage against more physical and talented cornerbacks on the outside.

The public will have its first opportunity on Saturday to buy single-game tickets for the Ravens' season when the team opens its ticket office at the new stadium.Separately, the team is negotiating with Aretha Franklin to give a free concert outside the stadium on Sept. 5, the eve of its regular-season opener.This Saturday, only tickets to the preseason games will be sold: Aug. 8 against the Chicago Bears and Aug. 24 against the Philadelphia Eagles.Single-game tickets for the regular season, which begins Sept.