 | Perry So led the Saybrook Orchestra in its Dec. 10 performance for 900 Connecticut schoolchildren. |
The Saybrook Orchestra -- an 80-piece full symphony orchestra composed of students, faculty and staff affiliated with Yale -- created a little musical magic when they presented a free educational concert to students from all over the state of Connecticut on Dec. 10 in Battell Chapel.
The concert was the centerpiece of the orchestra's educational outreach for the 2004-2005 season. The program included popular works by Holst and Mussorgsky and featured a suite by John Williams from the movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," with narration by noted stage and screen actress Kate Burton, an alumna of the School of Drama.
The Saybrook Orchestra is dedicated to offering live performances to as many students as possible in order to familiarize them with classical music and the sound of a full symphonic orchestra.
"Each student who came into that performing space is a potential lover of classical music," said Perry So, music director of the Saybrook Orchestra since its founding in 2001. "Our hope was to fan the flames a little, and help them discover something they weren't expecting."
More information about the Saybrook Orchestra may be found on its website, www.yale.edu/syorchestra.
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Saybrook Orchestra aims to
inspire young music lovers
Some of the 900 students from all over the state of Connecticut who enjoyed the concert.
Over 900 students and educators, representing the schools of New Haven, East Haven, Milford, Bridgeport, Trumbull, Branford, Southington, Hamden and Middletown, attended the performance.
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