Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra presents a concert for the entire family titled A Musical Menagerie at 3PM on Sunday, January 18 at Newton City Hall’s War Memorial Auditorium (1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton). To reserve a free ticket, go to the Pro Arte website.
Conductor Conner Gray Covington leads this lively program, guiding audiences on a magical journey through a “musical zoo.” The adventure begins with the buzzing energy of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, setting the tone for an afternoon filled with vivid musical storytelling.
In Camille Saint-Saëns’s beloved Carnival of the Animals, clucking chickens, lumbering elephants, and braying donkeys make memorable appearances. Additional works by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven paint scenes of children at play, graceful swans, and birds calling to one another along a pastoral brook. The concert concludes with Caroline Shaw’s The Mountain That Loved a Bird.
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