Annual Benefit Concerts

Community Ticket Program

Education & Family Concerts

Chameleons in the Community

FREE FAMILY CONCERT

Saturday, June 4, 2011, 2 PM
Weld Hall at Hyde Park Branch Library
35 Harvard Avenue, Hyde Park, MA 02136

Admission: FREE, no tickets necessary

Free Parking, Stroller accessible, Appropriate for all ages!

Program:
Chamber music inspired by places near and far – a tropical jungle, the plains of West Africa, the Paris Stage, a busy city street in Brazil, the mountains of Appalachia, and our own living rooms, neighborhoods and homes right here in Boston.

Instrument Petting Zoo:
An instrument “Petting Zoo” and demonstration will follow the performance in the Library's beautiful outdoor Children's Garden. Children will be able handle and play orchestral instruments as guided by members of Chameleon, and will be encouraged to touch, blow, pluck, bow, and strike.

Musical Selections:
Musical Selections by Franz Josef Haydn, Darius Milhaud, Bright Sheng, Jean Francaix, John Cage, Mark O'Connor, Manuel Ponce, and Chameleon's resident teacher/composer Hans Indigo Spencer.

About Chameleon's Education Program:
Our programs are designed to actively connect music with our world, our lives and our emotions, rather than simply introducing kids to Mozart, Beethoven and the classical historical context. We challenge them to find something personal in the music - how it makes them feel - rather than simply tell them how or when it was written - and connect them to the process of creating and enjoying music.

The interactive performances include three (one public and two school) hour-long concerts along with instrument demonstrations along with a series of in-class workshops for Boston Public School students in grades 3-5.