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December 5, 2015
Two Concerts!

Symphony Storytime and Surprises

New in 2015!
Free family concert

featuring Peter and the Wolf
starts at 3 p.m., 45–50 minutes long,
before Livermore’s Holiday Parade.

at the Bankhead Theater, 2400 First Street, Livermore, California

Cantabella Childrens Chorus logoThe program includes Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz, “Peter and the Wolf” narrated by Shea Homes logoLivermore Mayor John Marchand, “White Christmas,” and a Holiday Sing-a-long. Cantabella Children’s Chorus will join the orchestra for this performance. This event is sponsored by Shea Homes. Tickets are required even though the concert is free. Read the concert program booklet, including sing-a-long lyrics (968K pdf).

Symphonic Stories

Evening concert:
Doors open at 8 p.m.
(No prelude talk.)
Concert begins at 8:15 p.m.
—holiday parade day—


at the Bankhead Theater, 2400 First Street, Livermore, California

Humperdinck: Hänsel and Gretel Prelude

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
John Marchand, narrator

Ravel: Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose)

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite

Read the concert program booklet, including program notes (484K pdf).

John MarchandJoin us as we open our 53rd season with music for the whole family, just in time for the holidays. Fantasies and fairy tales
ignited the imagination of Humperdinck, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky, producing their most memorable works. We follow Hänsel and Gretel through the forest with the prelude to Humperdinck’s opera, and we see the world through a child’s eyes in the musical miniatures of Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite. Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite is a “dancing symphony” of love and fate. The centerpiece of our evening is Prokofiev’s marvelous musical story Peter and the Wolf, narrated by City of Livemore Mayor John Marchand, who was last on stage with our orchestra in May 2014 to read a proclamation from the City in honor of Dr. Arthur P. Barnes.

Note that the evening concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. (15 minutes later than usual, and no Prelude talk this time; doors open at 8 p.m.).

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