Youth and Family Presentations
The Education and Community Engagement Department is pleased to offer Youth and Family Concerts as part of the 2021-22 BSO Season. Led by Thomas Wilkins, the BSO will perform a program entitled So Now What: A Musical Look at Anticipation, Expectation, and a New Certainty Toward the Fulfillment of Our Promise for school communities as part of our Youth Concert week in early May. The program will be reprised for two Family Concerts, one of which will be a sensory-friendly performance.
In addition to our BSO Family Concert, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras will be featured in two programs: Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with conductor Adrian Slywotsky, and a program of music and magic led by conductor Marta Żurad, featuring magician Matt Roberts.
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Family Concert Peter and the Wolf
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO)
Federico Cortese, conductor
Genevieve Lefevre, narrator
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Concert for Very Young People: "Circle Round" Edition
Families are invited to attend this live taping of WBUR’s award-winning “Circle Round” podcast, which adapts folktales from around the world into radio plays starring beloved voices from the stage and screen.
Host Rebecca Sheir will be joined on stage at the Linde Center for Music and Learning by a trio of BSO musicians (piccolo player Cindy Meyers, bassoonist Suzanne Nelsen, and horn player Rachel Childers), along with actors Karen Allen (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”), Megan Boone (“The Blacklist”), Scott Cohen (“Gilmore Girls”), Marielle Heller (“The Queen’s Gambit”), and Peter Riegert (“Crossing Delancey”), as they record three new "Circle Round" stories: “Treasure Mountain,” a tale from China about the true riches in life; “Lookalike Falls,” a legend from Mexico about wisdom, folly, and everything in between; and “The Bags of Seeds,” a Vietnamese origin story about how a very important grain first came to earth. The live taping will be released as three separate podcast episodes in the “Circle Round” feed and as a video-on-demand BSO NOW concert stream.
Doors open at 10:30am.
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BSO/ BYSO Family Concert
The BSO’s Family Concert Series provides engaging, age appropriate, educational orchestral concert experiences especially for children ages 3–8 and their families. BSO Family Concerts are designed to build connections to the orchestra, orchestral music, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Symphony Hall.
Petit Ensemble
Marta Żurad, conductor
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So Now What: A Musical Look at Anticipation, Expectation, and a New Certainty Toward the Fulfillment of Our Promise
The BSO’s Family Concert Series provides engaging, age appropriate, educational orchestral concert experiences especially for children ages 3–8 and their families. BSO Family Concerts are designed to build connections to the orchestra, orchestral music, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Symphony Hall. The BSO offers three Family Concert programs per year, one of which is performed by the BSO and conducted by Germeshausen Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins, the other two of which are performed by the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) as part of a larger organizational partnership.
