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CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS
ROB KAPILOW’S FAMILY MUSIK: CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS
FOR TWO PERFORMANCES SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
AT THE TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER

 (BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents
Rob Kapilow’s Family Musik: Carnival of the Animals featuring Boston Musica Viva, soprano Sherry Boone, and baritone Jonathan Hays on Saturday, November 17 at noon and 2:00 p.m. at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Choreographer Daniel Pelzig serves as stage director for the production. Rob Kapilow’s Family Musik is a concert series featuring music specifically composed, arranged, and performed to introduce children to the performing arts, and is sponsored by The Collings Foundation.

In Carnival of the Animals Rob Kapilow brings royal lions, wild horses, turtles, elephants, kangaroos and birds to life with an enchanting exploration of Camille Saint-Saëns’s immortal classic. The program is recommended for adults and children ages 5 and above.

Composer, conductor, and creative director of Family MusikRob Kapilow is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and the Eastman School of Music, and is an accomplished pianist. For more than a decade, he has brought the joy and wonder of classical music to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, opening their ears to musical experiences and helping them to listen actively rather than just hear. The reach of his interactive events is wide, both geographically and culturally: from Native American tribal communities in Montana and inner-city high school students in Louisiana to wine-tasters in the Napa Valley, and from tots barely out of diapers to musicologists long out of Ivy League programs, his audiences are diverse and unexpected. Kapilow’s popularity and appeal are reflected in notable recent invitations: to appear on NBC’s Today Show in conversation with Katie Couric; to present a program for broadcast on PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center in January 2008; and to write a book to be published during the 2008-09 season.

Boston Musica Viva was founded in 1969 as the first professional ensemble in Boston devoted to contemporary music. Under the direction of Richard Pittman, Boston Musica Viva regularly performs throughout the United States and Europe for such institutions as Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, and Carnegie Hall, and at festivals including Tanglewood and the Settembre Musica Festival.

Director and choreographer Daniel Pelzig’s numerous theater credits include choreography for the Broadway production of A Year With Frog And Toad, Sweeney Todd for the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, and numerous other plays and musicals at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, City Center Encores!, New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Alliance Theatre and the Hollywood Bowl. For four years, Mr. Pelzig was resident choreographer for Boston Ballet, where he choreographed The Nutcracker, Romeo And Juliet, Nine Lives: Songs Of Lyle Lovett , and Resurrection which was accompanied at its premiere by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

About Rob Kapilow’s Family Musik
Now in its twelfth season, Rob Kapilow’s Family Musik is an educational program specifically created to spark a family-wide interest in and conversation about music through a series of fun-filled, interactive concerts and workshops that incorporate the disciplines of music, words and movement. Past Family Musik concerts have included Many Moons, Peter and the Wolf, A Soldier’s Tale, Everybody Dance Now!, Green Eggs and Hamadeus, April Fools! and MozartBridge. Audience participation allows children and adults to experience a joyful and stimulating point of entry into the world of the performing arts.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Saturday, November 17 at Noon and 2:00 PM
Tsai Performance Center , 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

ROB KAPILOW’S FAMILY MUSIK: CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

Rob Kapilow, conductor
Boston Musica Viva
Sherry Boone, soprano
Jonathan Hays, baritone
Daniel Pelzig, stage director
Linda O’Brien, lighting designer

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
“Flight of the Bumble-Bee” from Tzar Saltan

KAPILOW
And Furthermore, They Bite! – Chamber version

SAINT-SAËNS
Carnival of the Animals

Rob Kapilow’s Family Musik is sponsored by The Collings Foundation.

TICKETING INFORMATION
Tickets, priced at $30 and $25 for adults, and $22 and $17 for children, are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 or at the Celebrity Series box office, 20 Park Plaza, Suite 1032, Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; online at www.celebrityseries.org; or at the Tsai Performance Center box office, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, on the day of the performances.

 About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from two anonymous donors; The Little Family Foundation; The Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consolate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; The Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapoport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Dorothy and Stephen Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

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