Youth & Family Concerts

Magic Piano is the first feature-length film from BreakThru Films made in stereoscopic 3-D. It follows 10-year-old Anna, who misses her dad working in London while she stays in Poland with her aunt and cousin, Chip-Chip. When Anna decides to run away, she discovers an old piano hidden in a pile of rubbish, which magically transforms into a flying machine. Chip-Chip, afraid of heights but eager to join, comes along. Together they soar over rooftops and seas, hoping to find Anna’s dad and bring him home. But a fight between them breaks the steering, sending them adrift into a storm. Just when all seems lost, they find themselves back in Warsaw, where Dad is waiting for them.

Endorsed by pianist Lang Lang, who recorded the original Chopin soundtrack, Magic Piano is presented live with The Chopin Shorts, a delightful collection of animated films set to Chopin’s etudes, performed by talented pianist Derek Wang.

A celebration of music, movement, and storytelling! This interactive performance brings back improvisational storyteller, beatboxer, and rapper Baba Israel and multi-instrumentalist and soundscape wizard Sean Nowell to collaborate with contemporary dancer Audrey Thao Berger and hip-hop dancer B-Boy Spidey. The performance will invite young people to bring music, poetry, and stories to life through interactive dance!

Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is a beloved musical tale that introduces young listeners to the orchestra by assigning each character a distinct instrument and theme. Performed by a cast of talented local actors and musicians from the BU Tanglewood Institute, this timeless work remains one of the most enduring gateways to classical music for audiences of all ages!

In collaboration with Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

Passamaquoddy educator and singer Chris Newell joins Vermont fiddler and teaching artist Ida Mae Specker for a new interactive children’s concert premiering this summer as part of TLI for Families. Through songs, storytelling, rhythm games, and audience participation, the program invites children to experience how music connects people to community, culture, and the natural world.

In 2025, Specker and Newell began collaborating with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and others on projects exploring connections between music, community, and nature across the Northeast.