Not letting pandemic halt annual kids concert, Jacksonville symphony going virtual
Angela A. Bauer, Journal-Courier
FacebookTwitterEmail
Storyteller Bobby Norfolk of St. Louis will add his voice to the instruments making up Saturday’s children’s concert by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.Provided
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s annual tradition of performing a kids’ concert as a way of encouraging future generations of music lovers will move online this weekend with help from storyteller Bobby Norfolk’s instrument of choice his voice.
While the original plan for the children’s concert was for the St. Louis-based Norfolk to narrate Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” a popular musical tale that showcases individual instruments by linking them to the story’s characters, it didn’t take long into the pandemic for the symphony to realize a live performance probably wasn’t going to work.