Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
Toshiyuki Shimada, Music Director & Conductor
The Young People's Concert
October 18, 2012
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| Alana Corey, right, a third-grade student at Catherine Kolnaski School in Groton, watches the Eastern Connecticut Ballet School perform a vignette from Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" during the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra's Young People's Concert Thursday, October 18, 2012, for children from area schools at the Garde Arts Center in New London. The ECSO held two young people's concerts Thursday. They were sponsored by a grant from the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut and funding from Charter Oak Federal Credit Union. With the funding, ticket prices were kept low at $3 per person. Photo by Dana Jensen/The Day. |
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| Buses lined State Street for the Young People's Concert at the Garde Arts Center on October 18, 2012. |
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| Children exiting their bus to attend Young People's Concert. |
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"Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens - Krissy Sturgis of the Eastern Connecticut Ballet School - Cuckoo - performs
with Toshiyuki Shimada, Music Director and Conductor; James Stidfole, Narrator; and the Eastern Connecticut
Symphony Orchestra. |
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| Phoebe Brown of the Eastern Connecticut Ballet School performs as a lion during a vignette from Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" during the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra's young people's concert for children from area schools at the Garde Arts Center in New London Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The ECSO held two young people's concerts Thursday and they were sponsored by a grant from the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut and also funding from Charter Oak Federal Credit Union. With the funding ticket prices were kept low at $3 per person. |
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| Gabe Gilleo of Claude Chester School enjoys the Young People's Concert with classmates and the rest of the audience. |
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