50 • HSO SEASON 65 • SPRING FREE FAMILY CONCERT Peter and the Wolf SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020 • 11:00 a.m. • MARK C. SMITH CONCERT HALL, VON BRAUN CENTER Pre-concert activities from 9:30 a.m. Huntsville Symphony Orchestra • JOSEPH LEE, Resident Conductor • GREGORY VAJDA, Music Director in collaboration with HUNTSVILLE M.E.T. and FANTASY PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN’S THEATER Sergei Prokofiev loved to frequent the Central Children’s Theatre in Moscow with his young sons. In 1936, their repeated visits led to an invitation to write a children’s piece for orchestra. Little did the great composer know that Peter and the Wolf, the “symphonic fairy tale” he conjured within just a few short weeks, would become his most enduring work and a worldwide favorite for introducing young people to the instruments of the orchestra. The precocious farmboy Peter (strings)— disobeying Grandfather (bassoon) by venturing beyond the safety of the garden— encounters a bird (flute), a duck (oboe), a cat (clarinet), and at last a lurking wolf (horns) in the course of an unexpected adventure with a surprising end! Today’s program also sports Britten’s Simple Symphony for strings and Gounod’s Petite symphonie for winds, allowing us to experience separately two sections of the orchestra which are most often heard together in concert. FREE Family Concert Concert Sponsors: DAMSON AUTOMOTIVE GROUP PAINTED VIOLIN SOCIETY
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5 0 • HSO SE ASON 65 • SPR ING
F R E E F A M I L Y C O N C E R T
Peter and the Wolf SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020 • 11:00 a.m. • MARK C. SMITH CONCERT HALL, VON BRAUN CENTER
Pre-concert activities from 9:30 a.m.Huntsville Symphony Orchestra • JOSEPH LEE, Resident Conductor • GREGORY VAJDA, Music Director
in collaboration with HUNTSVILLE M.E.T. and FANTASY PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN’S THEATER
Sergei Prokofiev loved to frequent the Central Children’s Theatre in Moscow with his young sons. In 1936, their repeated visits led to an invitation to write a children’s piece for orchestra. Little did the great composer know that Peter and the Wolf, the “symphonic fairy tale” he conjured within just a few short weeks, would become his most enduring work and a worldwide favorite for introducing young people to the instruments of the orchestra. The precocious farmboy Peter (strings)—disobeying Grandfather (bassoon) by venturing beyond the safety of the garden— encounters a bird (flute), a duck (oboe), a cat (clarinet), and at last a lurking wolf (horns) in the course of an unexpected adventure with a surprising end! Today’s program also sports Britten’s Simple Symphony for strings and Gounod’s Petite symphonie for winds, allowing us to experience separately two sections of the orchestra which are most often heard together in concert.
FREE Family Concert
Concert Sponsors:
D A M S O N A U T O M O T I V E G R O U PP A I N T E D V I O L I N S O C I E T Y
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Guest Artists Kailey Burkhardt, nar rator• Performances with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Theater Huntsville, Huntsville
Shakespeare, Huntsville Community Chorus as actor, director, stage manager• Education Coordinator and Teaching Artist, Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theater
and Academy; Tour Manager, Fantasy Playhouse Theater for Young Audiences
Huntsvi l le M.E.T.• Nonprofit theater production company based in north Alabama• The mission of Huntsville M.E.T. is to continuously produce theater of the highest
quality in the Huntsville area, and to encourage and enable others who share a similar vision to pursue their goals in the local community
Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theater• One of the Tennessee Valley’s leading theater nonprofits, FPCT has, over the past fifty
years, grown into a large organization producing four complete shows per season• For more information and a complete season schedule, visit
