With this year's Hot Summer Nights music series now under way, we speak with the artistic director behind the series and explore some ideas orchestras are using to make their performances more family friendly and accessible. We also offer some music performed by members of the Missouri Symphony (scroll down for video clips).
Panelists:
Kirk Trevor, music director and conductor for the Missouri Symphony
Jennifer Barnett, director of education and community partnerships for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (joining us by phone)

Music performances as part of this program
Missouri Symphony performers Alexander Viazovcev (flute) and Maria Duhova Trevor (harp) joined us in studio before this program to perform some music. Only the first of the four pieces, Georges Bizet's "Entr'acte" from the opera "Carmen" made it into our conversation, so please enjoy the video presented below of all four pieces they played.

Entr'acte from Act 3 of "Carmen" by Georges Bizet:

“Entr’acte” by Jacques Ibert:

“Larghetto” by Gaetano Donizetti:

“Baroque Flamenco” by Deborah Henson-Conant:
 


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C. Bullard
06/11/2012 16:56

I'm listening tonight with my 4 year-old daughter. We're trying to decide what instruments are being played as we hear them. If the symphony offered a concert where kids were encouraged to come (meaning their parents wouldn't worry about being a disruption), they could introduce the different instruments that are featured in a song. We would love to attend something like that.

She is currently playing her clothes-pin flute.

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06/12/2012 07:09

Hi, we offer family concerts, you just missed one this past Sunday :(, the next one is June 24th, 3 pm Missouri Theatre and the last July 1, 3 pm also at the Missouri Theatre. Every summer during the Hot summer nights festival we have 3 family concerts, hope to see you there!

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