The Columbus Symphony wasn’t about to try.
For its love song-filled concert Saturday in the Palace Theatre, the symphony will admit 300 socially distanced, face-mask-wearing attendees marking the first time that Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz will lead the group before a live audience since the start of the pandemic.
“I didn’t realize, until it was gone, how much of what I do is playing off the audience and their reaction,” said Chafetz, who conducted the symphony’s “Holiday Spectacular” program, which was recorded without an audience for broadcast on WBNS-TV (Channel 10) in December.
“It’s amazing when that’s gone and there’s no reaction,” Chafetz said.
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âSymFunny,â a new childrenâs 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 âconductor,â they thought of someone who operates a train. She recalled a time when a child saw a seat reserved with a sign that said âusher,â 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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