NJSO presents ‘Peter and the Wolf’ Family Concert

NEWARK, NJ (January 14, 2013)—The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Peter and the Wolf—the second program of the 2012–13 Family concert series—on Saturday, February 9, at 2 pm at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. Bob McGrath of “Sesame Street” fame narrates Prokofiev’s classic tale.

The concert is the annual “side-by-side” concert for the NJSO’s celebrated Greater Newark Youth Orchestra (GNYO); the student orchestra will perform alongside the NJSO for “Berceuse and Finale” from Stravinsky’s The Firebird. The program, which also features the Allegro molto from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, is the NJSO’s fifth annual Gretchen Lochner Gonzales Memorial Family Concert, which honors the late NJSO cellist. Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts.

Interactive Pre-Concert Adventures begin at 1 pm in the Prudential Hall lobby. The activities, which are free to all ticketholders, include ready-to-play child-sized orchestral instruments provided by Touch the Music with Claudia Baumgaertner Lemmerz, allowing young concertgoers to play the instruments.

Pre-concert activities also include a craft station, photo booth and a station at which children can practice tying knots like the ones Peter used to capture the wolf in the classic story.

TICKETS
All tickets for Peter and the Wolf are $15 and are available for purchase online at www.njsymphony.org or by phone at 1.800.ALLEGRO (255.3476).