Kraft Foods Family Matinee Series

Mother Goose and More

Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Gerard McBurney, narrator
Laura T. Fisher, narrator

Humperdinck -   Witch's Ride from Hansel and Gretel
Rimsky-Korsakov -   Flight of the Bumblebee from The Tale of Tsar of Saltan
Mendelssohn -   Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tchaikovsky -   Selections from Sleeping Beauty
Rachmaninov -   Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf from Cinq Études-Tableaux (arr. Respighi)
Ravel -   Mother Goose Suite

The Orchestra will engage your family in Ravel’s beloved Mother Goose Suite, based on fairy tales including Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast. Originally written as a piano duet, Mother Goose is full of fantasy and adventure. The composer describes this piece as evoking the poetry of childhood.

FREE pre-concert activities start one hour before each performance!

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