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OrchestrAnimals
Saturday January 14, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
Join the Salt Lake Symphony and special guest KUTV Chief Meteorologist Sterling Poulson for a concert the whole family will love on Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 2:00 pm at Libby Gardner Concert Hall on President’s Circle on the University of Utah campus. Led by Conductor Claudia Restrepo, the orchestra will perform selections, traditional and new, dedicated to the amazing animals that inhabit this planet.
Music includes Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Finale, Mark McKenzie’s The Lion and the Mouse, Elton John’s Hakuna Matata from The Lion King, Haydn’s Finale from Symphony no. 82 “The Bear,” and Highlights from Jurassic Park.
The Salt Lake Symphony will accept donations of new and/or gently used stuffed animals at the concert. The animals collected will be donated to Family Promise of Salt Lake, a non-profit, interfaith, non-proselytizing, organization that provides shelter, case management and housing services to homeless families.
Conductors
Claudia Restrepo
- Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
- Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Finale to Act 4
- McKenzie, Mark The Lion and the Mouse
- John, Elton Hakuna Matata from the Lion King Arr: Vanhaegenberg
- Haydn Finale from Symphony No. 82, The Bear
- Williams, John Highlights from Jurassic Park Arr: Calvin Custer

