North Carolina Symphony Brings ?Bug Songs? to NCS Kids, March 10
Final Young People?s Concerts of 2011/12 Season Take Place at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks leads the North Carolina Symphony and Triangle Youth Ballet in a treat for the Triangle?s youngest music fans. Families can join the orchestra for a colorful artistic take on the sounds and sights of the insect world in ?Bug Songs,? Saturday, March 10 at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
The concerts take place at Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh?s Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
The Symphony presents favorite bug-themed works for orchestra. Concertgoers of all ages will recognize Rimsky-Korsakov?s unforgettable Flight of the Bumblebee, but the program also features rare performances of less well-remembered odes to our winged and multi-legged friends.
Children will delight in ?mile Waldteufel?s Blue Butterflies Waltz and hear the captivating drama unfolding in an insect garden in Roussel?s imaginative Spider?s Feast. The orchestra performs traditional favorites ?The Blue Tail Fly??also known as ?Jimmy Crack Corn??and ?La Cucaracha,? among others, and along the way gives demonstrations that show off individual instruments and their unique abilities to mimic the music of the bug world.
The Triangle Youth Ballet joins the Symphony on stage throughout the program to give visual life to these wonderful musical depictions. Founded in 1995 to produce The Nutcracker with talented local dancers, the Triangle Youth Ballet and school honors an ongoing mission of bringing the art of dance to the community through professional training and performance opportunities.
General admission tickets to either NCS Kids performance of ?Bug Songs? on Saturday, March 10 are $20. For tickets, visit the North Carolina Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org or call North Carolina Symphony Audience Services at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.
Young People?s Concerts are designed for families with children ages four to 12. Performances run for an hour and allow families an enjoyable and informative cultural outing, right in downtown Raleigh.
Learn how to save on these exciting children?s concerts, and find links to some of the wonderful online opportunities for children to engage in orchestral music, at the Symphony?s NCS Kids webpage: www.ncsymphony.org/kids.
Meymandi Concert Hall is located in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., in Raleigh.
About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony performs over 175 concerts annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties. An entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 67 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry and Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks.
Based in downtown Raleigh?s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington?as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year?and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.
Concert/Event Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
NCS Kids presents
Young People?s Concerts
Sarah Hicks, Associate Conductor
Triangle Youth Ballet
Sat, March 10, 2012, 11am and 4pm
Meymandi Concert Hall, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh
Program Listing:
Flight of the Bumblebee from The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Blue Butterflies Waltz, Op. 224
?mile Waldteufel
The Spider?s Feast, Op. 17
Albert Roussel
Spring from The Seasons
Alexander Glazunov
?The Blue Tail Fly? (?Jimmy Crack Corn?)
Traditional/arr. Davis
?La Cucaracha? (?The Cockroach?)
Traditional
La Boutique fantasque
Ottorino Respighi
II. Tarentella
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