Kid symphony concert
Mar. 21st, 2004 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nlbarberIt was another children's concert day at the Atlanta Symphony, and we all went. Nice program: Shostakovich's Festival Overture, Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (done with a narrator), and The Story of Babar, music by Poulenc, with dancers from the Atlanta Ballet, again with a narrator. Chris Kayser, whom I've seen in a couple of things at the Ga. Shakespeare Festival, did the narration.
The Shostakovich and the Britten are old standards that I like well, and which were done fairly well (I get the feeling that the ASO coasts through the children's concerts--concerts with the Atlanta Youth Orchestra at least feel like the performers are up for it). The Poulenc was, well, ballet music. I can't recall anything memorable about the music at all. But the ballet was well done and well paced for children--short dances, interspersed with more narration. Good concert.
The Shostakovich and the Britten are old standards that I like well, and which were done fairly well (I get the feeling that the ASO coasts through the children's concerts--concerts with the Atlanta Youth Orchestra at least feel like the performers are up for it). The Poulenc was, well, ballet music. I can't recall anything memorable about the music at all. But the ballet was well done and well paced for children--short dances, interspersed with more narration. Good concert.