CONTEST: Win 4 Tix to a Kids Concert this Saturday at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra 3/13 (CONTEST CLOSED)

Give your children the gift of music with tickets to one of two great kids concerts at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), Music Director, Leonard Slatkin and internationally acclaimed guest flutist Marina Piccinini will welcome audiences of all ages to Orchestra Hall in The Enchanting Flute, and a special Macy’s Super Saturday featuring a Young People’s Concert titled The Pied Piper, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and featuring Piccinini on flute. This Super Saturday will also incorporate The Henry Ford II Fund Tiny Tots Series: Strings and Drums: A New Kind of Family, performed by ensemble Musique Noire at 10 a.m. in The Music Box.

The Macy’s Super Saturday family series, offered throughout the Max M. Fisher Music Center, is a half-day of activities with doors opening at 9:30 a.m. The program is designed to introduce children to the wonders of music with two concert performances as well as a Marshall Music instrument petting zoo and arts and crafts.

During Macy’s Super Saturdays on Sat., Mar. 13, Leonard Slatkin and Marina Piccinini will treat children ages six and up to the MASCO Corporation Foundation Young People’s Concert: Pied Piper at 11 a.m. in Orchestra Hall featuring Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy, as well as other musical works. The performance will last approximately 60 minutes

The Henry Ford II Fund Tiny Tots Series: Strings and Drums: A New Kind of Family, performed by ensemble Musique Noire at 10 a.m. in The Music Box, lasts approximately 45 minutes and is recommended for ages 0-6. The members of Musique Noir, residing in Detroit and Chicago, are veteran players with national and international reputations. They produce a sophisticated sound that showcases unique string and percussion-based arrangements of jazz and world fusion, and will demonstrate the diversity of sounds when pairing instruments of the string family with congas, bongos and other percussion instruments. Each player is a working musician and music educator, and is passionate about both.

Individual tickets for all YPC and Tiny Tots performances may be purchased at the Max M. Fisher Music Center box office (3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit); by calling (313) 576-5111; or online at www.detroitsymphony.com. Individual concert tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for kids. Individual tickets for The Henry Ford II Fund Tiny Tots Series are $12 for adults and children. Babes in arms are free. For group discount information (10 people or more), please contact Chuck Dyer at (313) 576-5130 or cdyer@dso.org.

PERFORMANCES

DSO Tiny Tots Concert Series presents "Strings and Drums: A New Kind of Family"

The Max at Orchestra Hall

Saturday, March 13th at 10 am.

Hailing from Detroit and Chicago, Musique Noire is a group of music educators that demostrate the sophisitication and diversity of sounds possible when pairing string instruments with percussion.

The DSO does not appear on this program

DSO The Young People's Concert Series presents" The Pied Piper"

Orchestra Hall

Saturday, March 13th at 11 am.

Pied piper Marina Piccinni and Leonard Slatkin will lead us in a Corigilano's Pied Piper fantasy "ripping and skipping, running merrily after the wonderful music with shouting and laughter."

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GIVEAWAY

WIN a family four pack of tickets to the March 13th Tiny Tots Concert or a family four pack of tickets to the March 13th Young Peoples Concert.

To Enter:

- Fill out the information in the form below.

- Two winners will be selected, one for the Tiny Tots Concert and another for the Young Peoples Concert.

- One entry per person please.

- The contest ends on March 11, 2010 at 11:59am EST.

-The winners will be selected by random number generation.

-Winners will be contacted by email on March 11, 2010. If a winner does not respond with 12 hours of the email being sent, another winner will be chosen.

-4 Tickets will be held for each winner at the DSO Will Call.

- You can get 1 extra contest entry for following the DSO on Facebook.

- You can get 1 extra contest entry for following the DSO on Twitter.
Good Luck!


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-FORM HAS BEEN REMOVED. CONTEST IS CLOSED. 
-Winners have been notified.
-Congratulations to the winners: Beth K. and Sarah Jo S.