Brooke at the BSO

In the Spring Brooke and I took a trip down to the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore to hear the BSO perform a kids concert. We went to one in the fall and she *loved* it. The tickets are highly affordable ($6/per person) and in the fall the orchestra performed selections from Prokofiev's Cinderella while an oversized Cinderella puppet show was being performed and a narrator read the story. It was so cool and engaging not only for Brooke (she adored the puppets) but also for me since the orchestra was playing "real" music. This spring they did a Babar concert with music by Poulenc. As the story goes apparently Poulenc was sitting at the piano while his niece was reading the story of Babar. She set the book up on the piano and told her Uncle "play this!" So he composed a score to go along with the story. This is what the Orchestra was playing while an artist was complete sketches of the Babar story in time with the music. The artist was incredibly talented and they had a narrator reading the story along with the performance.

We aren't sure whether to be worried or not but at the end when I asked Brooke her favorite part of the story she said "When the big elephant ate the poisoned mushroom and died!"

Brooke's required picture of her feet