Lots of talented, smart people work in Powell Hall. A vast knowledge of stuff, musical and otherwise, is in abundance around here. Ask a question, you get plenty of answers.
Many of the folk who toil behind the scenes have instruments at home. They’ve studied at some of the best schools and know their way around a score. Somewhere on the life path they took careers that detoured from the concert stage. Yet here they remain, close to the music.
This Friday morning 2700 recorders will be played before a full house in Powell Hall. A long-planned and long-awaited concert involving our own Education and Community Partnership Program and Carnegie Hall’s LinkUp! Program will include the SLSO playing the music of Haydn, Beethoven and Ives to an audience of participating teachers and students. An arrangement of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" is also part of the program. That’s where the 2700 recorders come in for a bit of audience participation.
A rehearsal yesterday featured CPP member Megan Denell. Megan is an alumnus of Indiana University – a school known for its basketball team and its music school. As she stood on stage with the SLSO musicians, she thought of all those years and those thousands of dollars of schooling (she studied bassoon) – and here was her moment on the concert stage, playing a child’s tune on an instrument worth $4.25. I can’t wait to see her wardrobe on Friday.
