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Friday, March 5, 2010
Kids meet a music-maker and ‘Peanuts’ fan
I spent the morning at Miami University Hamilton where I met composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who is being spotlighted at Saturday’s American Masters concert by the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra.
Zwilich was in the thick of a Q&A session with some fourth- through sixth graders from St. James of the Valley School, Queen of Peace School and the John Scott Academy. Before she came on, Paul Stanbery, the musical director of the orchestra, asked the kids, “How many of you have a question for Ellen?”
A handful of hands rises.
“How many of you want a snack?” he asked.
Almost everyone does an impression of the Statue of Liberty.
“How many of you are going to ask a good question to get that snack?” Stanbery asked?
The hands stay up.
Read more about the Q&A with Zwilich tonight on the JournalNews Web site. For now, here is my interview with Zwilich.
Fun coincidence: the “Peanuts” strip that Zwilich refers to was published on my 20th birthday, Oct. 13, 1990. And as a lifelong “Peanuts” fan, I was delighted so many of the kids seemed to know the characters. Long may they run - unless maybe Lucy is holding the football.
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