Concerts

When Nora was promoted to Sinfonia 1 after her winter concert, we were really proud of her, but a little sad for ourselves. See, for three months this fall, when Nora was in the Debut Orchestra and Owen was in the Young Artist Orchestra, both kids had orchestra on Saturday morning (although Owen's started an hour earlier). It was glorious -- we could drop the kids off, run errands and grab coffee, and then pick them both up in time for lunch. But Nora's advancement meant that while Owen's rehearsal is from 9 am to 12:30 pm Saturday morning, Nora's is 1 pm to 3:15 pm Saturday afternoon. We now spend most of Saturday shuttling children back and forth.

But the one bright spot in this scheduling nightmare, is that the Sinfonia and the Young Artists are on the same concert bill in the spring. So on Saturday May 19th, we headed to THEARC Theater to hear both kids play.

Nora was first with "Presenting the Strings" followed by "Can-Can." We were a little nervous because in the last few rehearsals, Ms. Cuffy, the conductor, had been pretty tough on the violas. They sounded great, though, and it was pretty impressive how far this groups had come.

Owen's group was the grand finale and decided to take the audience on a musical journey. They started with Bradenburg, then went to Argentina for Tango Noir (which included some improvisation by some soloist), and ended with a middle eastern dance song (which also had a soloist). It was really impressive and a lovely way to end the season.