This year’s children’s concert features a bestiary of imagined animals and a sing along adventure! Hear how music illustrates the world around us, and explore fanciful delights of the symphony orchestra.  

The first work on the concert is Behold the Bold Umprellaphant! by Lucas Richman. It turns 17 poems by Children’s Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky, into a Carnival of the Animals for the new millennium. Prelutsky’s fanciful creatures, such as Pop-up Toadster, Tubaboon, Clocktopus, or Hatchicken are dynamically brought to life in lush symphonic glory. The narrator intones Prelutsky’s poetry and brings you along on a mixed-up animal adventure! 

The second work on the program is a story in symphonic form that needs you to sing along! The Itsy Bitsy Spider and His Great Singalong Adventure, composed by William White, follows everyone’s favorite spider on an adventure through folktales and fairy tales. Meet the Three Blind Mice and Mary and her Little Lamb while singing along with the audience.  

After the concert, join FBSO players as they invite the audience to touch, feel, and play their instruments at the instrument petting zoo. See if you can make a sound like one of the fantastical animals in the concert! 

This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Texas Music Office, Office of the Governor, and Ecolab.