Festival Princess
The National Music Festival’s family concert at the Presbyterian Church of Floyd (just one of dozens of concerts in the two week event) was geared towards children. It not only appealed to the child and the early childhood educator in me (my primary job before I had my own kids), but I learned a lot about the instrument families, how they are made and played. The French horn, clarinet and bassoon, and a version of Old MacDonald Had a Farm, in which stringed instruments represented animals, reminded me how formative Peter and the Wolf was to me as child (in an otherwise classical music deprived upbringing). As if that wasn’t enough fun excitement, the concert concluded with a princess (Allie Berger) dancing to the jazz, tango and waltz rhythms of Stravinsky’s Soldiers Tale. Watch HERE.
June 7th, 2011 1:07 pm
Peter and the Wolf… always amazed me, how the instruments could so magnificently weave an animal picture.
When my brother did his junior recital in college he sang a variety of opera, hymns and folk songs. He sang “I bought me a cat… my cat pleased me… etc. etc…” and each verse ended with “My cat said fiddily-i-fee”. And the verses were cat, dog, cow, horse and so on… and at one point he had to do the sounds… “My cat said… meow, meow.” etc. Each verse built on the previous with the animal sounds adding up and adding up…. The very last verse… “I bought me a wife, my wife pleased me…..my wife said…. ‘honey… honey’. He put such a drawl on the honey, honey… it brought the house down and flabbergasted his professors who really didn’t know what to say when he sat down. I have a tape of it somewhere and wish I could get it digitalized and on here. Still makes me laugh after all these years.
June 7th, 2011 2:53 pm
Sounds hilarious!
June 7th, 2011 3:40 pm
I love her interpretation. she dances well.
June 8th, 2011 1:38 am
nice shots
June 9th, 2011 7:20 pm
I love dancing!!