Jump into the fun during our annual interactive family concert! Kids and grown-ups alike will be in on the action during every piece of this exciting and vibrant concert, which is designed with our youngest audience members in mind.
We’ll begin with Mexican composer Arturo Marquez’s rhythmic and playful Conga del Fuego Nuevo. Activist and Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon’s The Block, inspired by the art of Romare Bearden and vibrant scenes of Harlem, follows. Valerie Coleman’s Umoja will harness the voices of our whole community through call and response and memorable melodies that invite us to create beautiful music together. And finally, we’ll wrap-up this hour-long performance with Bruce Adolphe’s highly interactive Three Pieces for Kids and Chamber Orchestra.
Plan to arrive early! Thirty minutes before the concert starts, an instrument petting zoo will be held throughout the concert hall and lobby giving your whole family a hands-on opportunity to get to know our artists and their instruments!
Did you know?!
The conga is a Cuban carnival dance - and a drum!- brought by Black enslaved people from the West Indies.
Umoja is a Swahili word that means “unity.” It is also the first principle of Kwanzaa!