EDMONDS — If you have children or grandchildren ages 3 to 10 who are interested in playing a musical instrument, this is the concert to take them to.
Cascade Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Miropolsky, presents its annual children’s program at 3 p.m. Feb. 20 at Edmonds Center for the Arts.
But come early.
At 2 p.m. KING-FM radio hosts an “Instrument Petting Zoo,” when children will have a chance to get up close to brass, woodwind, percussion and string instruments, and maybe even try one out and talk to the musicians who play them.
During the concert, two young musicians, participants in the orchestra’s “Rising Stars” competition, will perform.
Pianist Claire Kim, 12, will perform the 1st movement and cadenza of Haydn’s Concerto in D major.
Flutist Phoebe Rawn, 15, will perform the 3rd movement of Reinecke’s Concerto in D major.
Claire is a seventh-grader at Gateway Middle School in Mill Creek. A student of Allan Park, she has participated in numerous concerto competitions, including those hosted by Snohomish County Music Teachers Association, Edmonds Music Teachers Association, Everett Philharmonic Orchestra, Sanford Chamber Music and Chopin Foundation NW Festival.
Phoebe is a freshman at Seattle’s Garfield High School, where her orchestra director is Marcus Tsutakawa. She studies with Zart Dombourian-Eby of the Seattle Symphony. Phoebe has participated in competitions hosted by Seattle Young Artists Music Festival and Seattle Flute Society. She plays chamber music through the Seattle Conservatory of Music and is in her fifth year in the Seattle Youth Symphony program.
The concert program also includes a fun performance by the Cascade Percussion Ensemble.
The highlight of the afternoon will be Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” narrated by radio personality Dave Dolacky.
Peter and the Wolf, composed in 1936, has introduced orchestral music to generations of children. Its endearing characters include the bird (flute), the duck (oboe), the cat (clarinet), the hunters (woodwinds, trumpets, percussion), Grandfather (bassoon), Peter (strings) and the Wolf (French horns).
It is said that Prokofiev wrote “Peter and the Wolf” in just four days for a commission by the Central Children’s Theater of Moscow, Russia. The work later was made into an animated Disney film and it became a regular in many orchestras’ repertoires after Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic performed “Peter and the Wolf” on the orchestra’s televised Young People’s Concerts in the early 1960s.
Gale Fiege: 425-339-3427; gfiege@heraldnet.com.
If you go
Cascade Symphony Orchestra, 3 p.m. Feb. 20, Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. tickets are $10 for adults and seniors, $5 for students with ID and just $2 for children 12 and younger. Go to www.edmondscenterforthearts.org or call 425-275-9595.
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