LSO Lollipop, Symphony-on-the-Go performances feature Tubby the Tuba and Friends

If you follow Greater Lafayette, Indiana and Purdue University news, you may want to subscribe to the Lafayette Online News RSS feed.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra will present “Tubby the Tuba and Friends” for the annual Lollipop Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, in the Long Center for the Performing Arts.

LSO conductor Nicholas Palmer will lead the performance, which includes the “Cowboys Overture” by John Williams, “Music, Music Everywhere” by Lucas Richman, and “Tubby the Tuba and Friends” by George Kleinsinger. Tickets are $4 each and can be purchased in advance or at the door on the day of the performance.

Lafayette’s Erika Spykman is guest vocal soloist for this year’s Lollipop Concert, and Doug Pruim will narrate “Tubby the Tuba and Friends.”

“The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra has a special performance again this year for our Lollipop Concert that is designed for all families in our community,” Palmer said. “I know this version of ‘Tubby the Tuba and Friends’ will be a real treat for all and we also will provide interactive features during the concert that are sure to entertain both the children and their parents.”

For young and old lovers of music, the LSO also will host an Instrument Petting Zoo at 2 p.m., an hour before the concert, in the Virgil St. John Pavilion at the Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to hear a very popular performance that appeals to all ages and also to learn about musicians and their instruments in the Instrument Petting Zoo,” said Ken Bootsma, executive director of the LSO. “We have a wonderful musical program, and the Instrument Petting Zoo was such a hit last year that we had no choice but to bring it back this year. It’s educational and fun for the kids and their parents.”

The LSO will have a book sale in conjunction with this year’s Lollipop Concert, offering entertaining and educational titles that will appeal to families with a love for music. Chocolate lollipops provided by Kathy’s Kandies & Chocolate Lounge of Lafayette will be given to children who attend Sunday’s performance.

LSO’s annual Lollipop Concert will follow the orchestra’s free Symphony-on-the-Go performance, also of “Tubby the Tuba and Friends,” for fourth-graders in school districts across a 14-county area in the Lafayette-West Lafayette region.

The Symphony-on-the-Go performances, at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, are central to the LSO’s traditional educational outreach efforts. Both concerts Friday are sold out and there are no tickets available to the general public.

“We are expecting a full house at the Long Center for both Symphony-on-the-Go performances on Friday,” Palmer said. “We also are excited that we are reaching more and more fourth graders from Tippecanoe County and throughout the entire Greater Lafayette region every year, exposing youngsters to classical music in a wonderful venue.”

Launched in 1950 as a non-profit organization, the 70-person Lafayette Symphony Orchestra is focused on enriching the cultural life of the West Central Indiana community and 14 surrounding counties through excellence in orchestral music and educational experience.

About 80 percent of its patrons are from Lafayette, West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County, while the remainder are from the surrounding counties of Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain, Howard, Jasper, Montgomery, Newton, Pulaski, Tipton, Warren and White.

Related News Items

• No Related Post