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Children explore magic of symphony through book

“SymFunny,” a new children’s book, teaches children about literacy with a fun twist on words. By purchasing this book, customers can support the local author and illustrator, in addition to Fairmount Center for the Arts. Jeannie Fleming-Gifford, executive director of the Fairmount Center for the Arts, came up with the idea for SymFunny in 1999. Ms. Fleming-Gifford was the education director for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for several years, where she noticed a difference between what children expect to see at the orchestra hall compared to what they actually saw. When children heard the word “conductor,” they thought of someone who operates a train. She recalled a time when a child saw a seat reserved with a sign that said “usher,” but the child thought that the seat was reserved for the popular musician, Usher. Ms. Fleming-Gifford and her co-author, Anna Magnusson, were inspired by these incidents to write a book that teaches children about h

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