One-Hour Family-Friendly Concerts
Sunday, January 30 at 3pm
North Community High School
1500 James Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN
Sunday, February 6 at 3pm
Church of St. Matthew
490 Hall Avenue, St. Paul, MN
William Schrickel, conductor
Matthew Abernathy, conductor
Jake Endres, narrator
Chadwick “Niles” Phillips, performer
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – African Dance from African Suite, op. 35
John Williams – Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Gioachino Rossini – Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Sergei Prokofieff – Peter and the Wolf
These special 1-hour concerts of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra begin with lively dance music from British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s African Suite. Matthew Abernathy conducts music composed by John Williams for the 1984 Olympics and Gioachino Rossini’s brilliant overture to La Gazza Ladra, the twenty-first of the Italian master’s thirty-nine operas. The family-friendly program concludes with Chadwick “Niles” Phillips and Jake Endres joining forces with William Schrickel and the MSO to recount Russian composer Sergei Prokofieff’s charming tale of a young boy’s ingenuity, Peter and the Wolf.