Open Dream Gets SYMPHONICIZED!

This post is from multi-talented Marissa. She sings, she dances, she acts, and she plays clarinet! Peter and the Wolf in the making! Prokofiev scored a timeless box office hit, and it is undoubtedly one of my favorites in classical music literature. We get to perform it with the Winston Salem Symphony on November 11th for a kids concert. This is the first time I'll be performing with an orchestra where I'm not in the clarinet section. So instead of playing that killer cadenza with the clarinet as the cat running up the tree, I'll be running and jumping around on stage as the bird with giant wings and lots of facepaint. Julianne has done a fantastic job choreographing the piece in a very short amount of time, and it's a riot to see all the members of the ensemble find their characters. Haydee plays an endearing and extraordinarily convincing Peter. From a distance, you would never know she wasn't playful and

mischievous young boy innocently up to trouble in the meadow. In addition to Peter and the Wolf, there are 4 more pieces on the program... The Headless Horseman, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Goldilocks, and Aladdin (where I make a brief Bellydance appearance shimmying from one side of the stage to the other). It's going to be a ridiculously fun concert, and I'm telling every parent I know to bring their kids to Reynolds Auditorium on November 11th. It's Sunday at 3pm. If you're free, BE THERE.