Award Winning Children’s Concert, Art, Science Day
Returns to Cedar City
The award-winning Orchestra
of Southern Utah Children’s Jubilee returns to Cedar City Saturday, February 11
with music at 2 p.m. for an afternoon extravaganza exploring music, science and
art. The event includes a family-length concert, hands-on science and art
activities led by professors and students from SUU, and displays from local
businesses and area schools. We’ll
explore music inspired by art with Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.
Every February the Orchestra
transforms the Heritage Center into a children’s museum, allowing children of
all ages to explore science, art and music in new and exciting way.
"Our family loves attending the Children's Jubilee,”
commented Cedar City resident and OSU Board Member Marlo Ihler. “My children look forward to the
concert, as well as participating in all the fun activities afterwards. It's a
great opportunity to learn, explore, and enjoy one of the finest family events
in our community."
This year the Jubilee, which is sponsored by Color Country Pediatrics in Cedar City and the Rocky
Mountain Power Foundation, brings art, music and science to life with Pictures
at an Exhibition. Children will have an opportunity to
investigate connections between music and visual art, explore color and sound,
and discover how people feel and show emotion through visual arts and music.
Displays open at 1:00
pm. Local businesses, including
Cedar Music Store and the Southern Utah Museum of Art provide opportunities for
children to explore musical instruments, art, and literature. Area elementary school students provide
art inspired by music by Modest Mussorgsky and the work of artist/composer
Wassily Kandinsky.
The concert, performed by
the Orchestra of Southern Utah, begins at 2:00 pm. This year the concert features Mussorgsky’s Pictures at
an Exhibition, including the regal
“Castle” and humorous “Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks.” Pictures was inspired by drawings and watercolors by
Mussorgsky’s friend, artist and architect Viktor Hartmann. This vivid composition was a natural
choice for a Jubilee event exploring sound, color, and art.
Hands-on science and art
activities led by Southern Utah University professors and students begin
immediately following the concert.
Children have the opportunity to explore the science of color through
interactive science projects and discover their inner artist with art projects.
Face painters, including Lydia Brescia, add to the festivities.
Lobby
music starts at 1:15 with the Three Peaks Children’s Choir under the direction
of Suzan Parker and Pete Akins with
pianist Harmony Langford.
Tickets for the Orchestra of
Southern Utah’s Children’s Jubilee: Pictures at an Exhibition are $5.00 each
for children and adults; children under one year of age are admitted free of
charge. One free ticket is given
to each family that brings three cans of food to be donated to Care and Share. For more information, visit the orchestra
website at www.orchestraofsouthernutah.org or call Sara Penny at 435-586-2286.
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