Babar to be Featured at Children's Concert

The Hoff-Barthelson Music School will feature a special Children’s Corner Concert at the Music School, 25 School Lane, Scarsdale on Friday, March 18 at 6:30 pm. L’Histoire de Babar, le Petit Éléphant (Babar the Elephant) by Francis Poulenc will be performed by pianist Gena Raps and narrated by Ronald Spivak. La Cheminée du Roi René by Darius Milhaud will be played by faculty artists Joseph Piscitelli, flute; Elizabeth Condon, oboe; Dorothy Duncan, clarinet ; Karen Froehlich, horn and Janet Grice, bassoon. La Cheminée is a woodwind suite in seven movements that recounts 15th century King Rene’s daily rituals: a procession, hunting, the entertainment of jugglers, and jousting on the River Arc.

As part of the L’Histoire de Babar, le Petit Éléphant performance, the Hoff-Barthelson Preschool’s Recycled Materials Art Project will be on display. Each year the 3 and 4-year-olds in the HBMS Preschool listen to and hear the story of a particular piece of music - Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf in past years - and then build a 3D representation of that piece from a wide assortment of recycled materials. This year Babar the Elephant has been rendered in brilliant colors from paper tubing, feathers, string, twine, egg crates, cardboard and the like! Currently on display in the Children’s Library at the Scarsdale Library, the entire project will be reassembled for display at the March 18 performance.

Not recommended for children under 3, tickets are $12 for ages 3-12, $18 for 13 – adult, and $6 for Hoff-Barthelson students under 18. For information about this event call 914-723-1169 of email hb@hbms.org.