Saturday, April 21, 2007

Pottstown Symphony Educational Outreach Concerts. 3 concerts per day for 3 days. We were stationed at Pottstown High School, Spring-Ford Area High School, and Owen J. Roberts High School. Very fun and challenging. Rosalind Erwin is our music director.

Dancers, narrator, craziness all around. The repertoire for this series was Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody for Cello with 16 year old cellist Grant Kot, Maggio: Simple, and Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. In the past we have performed 1919 version of Firebird and Copland's Rodeo. Before I was called to play, the performed Peter and the Wolf and I heard Scheherazade and I am sure other exciting pieces that young children would love.
Picture from the back of the hall as students arrive at Spring-Ford Area High School in Royersford, PA.
A view from my piccolo chair. The entire auditorium was packed!
Flutists Kati Haynes Gulde and Kaj Hansen. Oboists Jill Haley and Dave Schneider. I think Kati was trying not to laugh.
Kati and Kaj humoring me.
Derek Foster, horn player extraordinaire.

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