Wild Symphony
Wild Symphony
Dan Brown's WILD SYMPHONY
featuring the Rowan University Wind Ensemble
Sunday, April 23, 2023
3:00 PM · Pfleeger Concert Hall
co-presented with
Are you ready for a wild adventure?
In honor of Earth Day, join us for musical fun for the whole family! From New York Times' bestselling author and composer Dan Brown, Wild Symphony brings beetles, bats, boars, and other species from throughout the animal kingdom together for a special concert. With projected illustrations from the children's book, New York-based stage and screen actor Matt Dallal narrates while the Rowan University Wind Ensemble performs the score, bringing the majestic story to life.
Translated in more than 20 countries worldwide, Wild Symphony helps to nurture a love of music with the young (and young at heart), introducing classical sounds and scores paired with drawn portraits of fun-loving friends.
Arrive early to enjoy an allergy-friendly snack in the lobby, and a color-along activity for the performance.
Run time is approximately 50 minutes.
View the digital program in advance here.
Banner image illustration: Susan Batori
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Phantom Limb Company's
THE PUPPET CYCLE: SMALL WORLD STORIES
Two chances to see it - 2:00 PM or 4:00 PM
Join us on the Wilson Hall patio before or after Wild Symphony to see original short plays starring contemporary artist-made marionettes on Phantom Limb Company's solar-powered mobile stage. With an environmental focus, "Frown Town" and "Elephantasia" find hope with a side of the surreal in the shadow of uncertainty.
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Artist Bios
Dan Brown (Wild Symphony Author & Composer)—the man behind the #1 best-selling publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code—is known for exciting twists, turns, and surprises. His newest surprise, Wild Symphony, unveils the novelist as a lifelong musician and composer who was inspired at a young age by Peter and the Wolf, The Carnival of the Animals, and The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. wildsymphony.com
Matt Dallal (Narrator) Off Broadway: Darling Grenadine (Roundabout Underground), Saturday Night (Second Stage); Regional: Fiasco Theater’s Measure for Measure (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Love’s Labor’s Lost (Folger Theatre); Borderline (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Three Sisters, Adam and Evie (Living Room Theatre). TV: “Have You Seen This Man” (Hulu), “FBI” (CBS), “Emergence” (ABC). Training: Circle in the Square Theatre School.
Sound Planet Musical Festival (Co-Presenter) The Sound Planet Music Festival was founded in 2023 by conductor and educator Joseph Higgins to present impactful performances and learning opportunities focused on the climate and biodiversity crises. Events include indoor + outdoor concerts, lectures + education sessions, immersive + interactive activities, and more. Performers and audiences come together to hear the world in new ways, to find inspiration from music and to follow a collective call to action. The 2023 SPMF is hosted by Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ.
About The Marie Rader Presenting Series
The Marie Rader Presenting Series at Rowan University brings exceptional artists to campus, enriching the university community and the Greater Southern New Jersey region through expanded performing arts programming, bolstering a robust academic program in dance, music and theatre. Every Marie Rader engagement not only brings an artist to campus to perform, but also offers transformative coaching opportunities for Rowan students, and meaningful exchanges with community partners throughout the region.
Because of the Marie Rader Series, you don't have to travel to New York or Philadelphia to see some of your favorite, most influential leaders in dance, music, theatre and beyond. This series is also designed to introduce you to artists you wouldn't otherwise encounter-- artists who reflect not only the future of performing arts, but who help us envision a better world, right now, right here in South Jersey.
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