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We know not all kids are ready for the regular concert experience. Classical Kids allows your kids to experience the orchestra at their level. There are snacks, story time with the library, meet a musician, activities, space for movement, and the orchestra. We have sensory friendly options with low light levels and noise minimizing headphones.
RSVP ONLY—MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND
11:00 - Doors Open
11:05 - Meet a Musician
11:15 - Storytime with Miss Ali
11:30 - Hall Doors Open
12:00 - Front Doors Close - No Re-entry
12:30 - Classical Kids Ends
Ready to join Classical Kids and experience music live? Learn more and register here.
Today's Classical Kids get to explore Maurice Ravel's Boléro as well as Daphnis and Chloé. The Shoestring Circus will join the BSO on the stage during Boléro for a one-of-a-kind emersive experience. Kids will get to see behind the scenes as the orchestra rehearses this beautiful music with the circus.
Even the austere Stravinsky called Daphnis “not only Ravel’s best work, but also one of the most beautiful products of all French music.”
Ravel suffered a severe blow to the head in a taxi accident in Paris 1932, after which he experienced progressive apraxia (inability to perform purposeful movements) and aphasia (loss of language capability).
Researchers have suggested that the relentless, repeating structure of Boléro reflects a brain disorder, particularly frontal lobe dementia, characterized by compulsive repetition.
Koji Kondo, composer at Nintendo, planned to use Boléro as the opening crawl for the first The Legend of Zelda video game (1986), but shortly before release was forced to use other music from the game instead due to copyright concerns.
WATCH Classics Explained: Boléro by Maurice Ravel
WATCH A version of Boléro was recorded with Frank Zappa conducting an all-brass big-band ensemble in 1988: Frank Zappa "Packard Goose Pt. I"x
ART HISTORY Jean Ians weaver, The Births, c. 1718-1720, wool and silk
One of five tapestry pieces telling the story of Daphnis and Chloe, woven at the Manufacture des Gobelins circa 1718-1720. Each of these tapestries illustrates, in five scenes, one of the four chapters of the ancient novel Daphnis and Chloe.
LISTEN To Yaniv's Star-Cross’d Dreams YouTube Playlist
MEET US AT THE MOVIES Join us at the Pickford Film Center (more information coming soon)
Experience Music LIVE - there's nothing like it!
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*All programs subject to change.
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