The InstigatorSalem Philharmonia presents “A Family Concert: Meet the Orchestra” featuring music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner and more, 2 p.m. Saturday, December 2, and Sunday, December 3, at East Salem Community Center, 1850 45th Ave NE.
“These concerts are really special,” said Susan Friesen, Executive Director. “They’re geared for the whole family … familiar symphonic classics, but shorter than the selections in our usual concert format, with instrument demonstrations to get the younger crowd excited about instruments that particularly grab their attention.”
Instrument demonstrations interspersed amongst the following program:
- Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet: Montagues and Capulets
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mvt. 1
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Excerpt from Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring a student soloist
- Felix Mendelssohn – Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt
- Georges Bizet – Minuet from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
- Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
- Modest Mussorgsky – Promenade and Gnomus from Pictures at an Exhibition
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
Before the concert, at 1:15 p.m. in the lobby, there will be an instrument ‘petting zoo’ giving kids an opportunity to see up close and try out some of the instruments found in an orchestra.
Tickets are $20 for adults. Youth through the age of 17 are always admitted free. For more info, visit salemphil.org
This story originally ran in Press Play Salem issue 18 (Winter 2023)
Carlee Wright
