Director

Join the musicians and Philippe on adventures around the city. Parks, museums, zoos, playgrounds … where can music take us? The performance features music for percussion and strings.

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Very Young People’s Concerts: Around Town

Kaufman Music Center

Music inspires our imaginations! Come and explore how music helps us to pretend and takes us to far-away places. The performance includes music from Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet.

Very Young People’s Concerts: Make Believe

Meet us at the intersection of art and science, in the Kimmel Center’s Hamilton Garden, for a panel discussion exploring A Song by Mahler, with a reception to follow. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania take the stage with the creative minds who brought A Song by Mahler to Philadelphia for a conversation about how both art and science can change the way we portray, care for, and love those living with cognitive impairment.

Music on the Mind

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Celebrate 100 years of Young People’s Concerts™ with madcap sounds, humor, and surprises — and discover how composers throughout the ages have used these tools to comment on important issues of their day. Featuring cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

Young People’s Concert: Celebration

Lincoln Center

Featuring students from the Juilliard Preparatory Division, this concert will celebrate the creativity of young musicians with newly commissioned works for professional and youth orchestras. In partnership with the Juilliard Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum.

Young People’s Concert: Composing Inclusion

Instruments can play games, too: musical chairs, follow-the-leader, tag … you’re it! Together we’ll find out how music can be fun for everyone. The performance includes music from Schubert’s Trout Quintet.

Very Young People’s Concerts: Games and Toys

In a vivid retelling of the Orpheus myth from his bride’s perspective, composer Matthew Aucoin and librettist Sarah Ruhl’s stunning opera Eurydice follows the titular character as she travels to the underworld on her wedding day. Boston Lyric Opera, together with Opera Grand Rapids, has co-commissioned a new,  intimate orchestral arrangement from Aucoin, acclaimed composer and MacArthur Fellow, and Ruhl, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright. This compelling new production, conducted by the composer and directed by Doug Fitch, delves into the profound bonds of family and love – between parents and children, between husband and wife. Eurydice is a resonant story of love’s beauty and brutality – and the power of music to find us in the dark.

Eurydice

The Huntington Theatre

Hansel and Gretel head into the forest in search of food—but they almost end up as tasty treats themselves when they start nibbling on the deliciously edible house of a very nasty witch!

Doug Fitch

Director

Events

Past events

Jun 1, 2024

Very Young People’s Concerts: Around Town · New York Philharmonic

May 18, 2024

Very Young People’s Concerts: Make Believe · New York Philharmonic

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