"What's it all about, Maestra?"

Family Concert, with Guest Artist Oran Sandel
Including the popular Instrument Petting Zoo!

Beethoven - Coriolan Overture

Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice

Handel - Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (Junior Guest Conductor*)

Peck - Playing with Style

*Every year, as part of a major fundraiser, CCS auctions off a "Junior Guest Conductor" spot for a child age 4-16. The lucky winner gets to "conduct" one of the pieces on the Annual Family Concert program.

Oran Sandel has been a working theater artist in the Washington area since 1975.  Following graduation from Catholic University that year, he worked as an actor/dancer/singer at  New Playwright’s Theater, Back Alley Theater, The Harlequin Dinner Theater, Cedar Knoll Dinner Theater, Ford’s Theater and several others before landing at Arena’s Living Stage Theater Company, where he spent the next twenty-three years. Having left his position as Artistic Director there in 2001, he is now working as a freelance consultant, teacher, writer, director, and performer.  He can be seen these days in the Washington Revels’ Christmas Revels and May Revels, in various performances at the Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater, Adventure Theatre, and Creative Cauldron; and performing his one-man shows, In Leonardo’s Workshop, and Professor Wingnut Wants to Fly through the Smithsonian Visiting Scholars program. Performances as an actor within a music context include the McLean Orchestra, and touring with Mark Jaster and Tina Chancey of Hesperus, performing their text/music/movement piece, Wild Kingdom.