LA Phil Field Trip

Thanks to the Foothill Philharmonic Committee for their generous donation of tickets and bus transportation, 29 of our orchestra students got to attend a concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall this morning.  We attended the final concert of this year's Toyota Symphonies for Youth performed by the LA Philharmonic titled The Hero Composer.

Before the concert, there are activities for the children, and our favorite is the drum circle.  This year the students had boomwhackers and created rhythmic patterns based on various colors of buckets.  Of course, our students have been studying music, so they were exceptionally good at it.

Besides listening to portions of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, we were treated to brand-new compositions by student composers which we were surprised to discover were high school seniors.  They are part of the Composer Fellowship Program, a two-year program for high school students.  Imagine being 17 and having your composition played by the LA Phil!