On Friday, the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra will “join with the Tuscaloosa Community Dancers to perform its annual Family Discovery Concert, in morning concerts for fifth-graders, and at 6 p.m. as a ticketed event billed for families,” writes Mark Hughes Cobb in Wednesday’s (3/9) Tuscaloosa News. “The concerts include vivid choices from the repertoire designed to help kids connect the instruments with familiar sources from nature, from fairy tales, and from cartoons…. Friday’s concerts—morning and evening shows will be identical—include Rossini’s Overture to ‘The Barber of Seville’, Ravel’s ‘Laideronette, Empress of the Toy Mandarins’ from his ‘Mother Goose Suite,’ Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight of the Bumblebee,’ and concluding with the TCD collaboration on Saint-Saëns’s ‘The Carnival of the Animals,’ featuring Kevin Chance and Brad Baker as piano soloists.” TSO Music Director Adam Flatt said that playing for children is “possibly the most important thing we do…. We know how important exposure is, how powerful exposure is; letting children come into contact with what we do, symphonic music, letting that reaction between the kids and the art happen. Even a couple of exposures to something like this in childhood can somehow plant a seed that will result in interest later.”
Posted March 10, 2016
