Family Fun At The Charlotte Symphony Lollipops

Dan Kamin brings the Charlotte Symphony's 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Season 2006-07 Lollipops series into the New Year with his comedy concerto, The Magic Orchestra, on Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 11 AM at the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (130 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC 28202). A Pre-Concert Festival begins at 10 AM on the balcony level lobby.

"Resident Conductor Alan Yamamoto adds a fun and educational narrative, as he is poked, pushed, and pulled by performers, causing children to erupt in laughter." -The Charlotte Observer

Nerdy Mr. Kirby, from the National Institute of Children's Entertainment (N.I.C.E.) doesn't believe in the magical power of music, so conductor Alan Yamamoto and Orchestra demonstrate their powers with a series of magical, musical pranks, such as turning Kirby into a marionette to accompany Gounod's March of a Marionette. Kids are introduced to timeless classics by Grieg, Ponchielli, and others.

Young listeners ages 4 - 9, their parents, and grandparents enjoy engaging Saturday morning concerts and experience the thrill of hearing and seeing a live Symphony Orchestra. About one hour in length, these fun and educational concerts help your child make friends with great music and the Orchestra.
The Pre-Concert Festival is designed to nurture young people's interest in symphonic music through hands-on activities coordinated by the CSO Education Department. The Musical Petting Zoo sponsored by the Symphony Guild, Harmonious How-To's, a Pre-School Station, and a Charlotte Symphony Ensemble are all part of this festival full of learning and fun!

These single tickets are on sale now for $8 to $20.

UBS is the 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Season sponsor. Radio Disney AM 1480 is the 2006-07 Lollipops series radio sponsor. WJZY The CW 46 is the 2006-07 Lollipops series television sponsor.
Symphony Guild of Charlotte, Inc is an additional 2006-07 Lollipops series sponsor.

About Dan Kamin

Dan Kamin performs worldwide for theatres, colleges and symphony orchestras. On film, he created the physical comedy sequences for Chaplin and Benny and Joon, and trained Robert Downey, Jr. and Johnny Depp for their acclaimed starring performances. He also created Martian movement for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! and played the wooden Indian come to life in the cult classic Creepshow 2.

Despite these impressive credits, Dan's artistic beginnings were humble. At age twelve he began his performing career by doing magic shows at the birthday parties of often obnoxious children. Attending Carnegie Mellon University to study industrial design, Dan's hopes for a normal life evaporated when he saw the eye-popping movement illusions practiced by master mime Jewel Walker. Dan promptly became the sorcerer's apprentice.

The great silent comedy films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin added more fuel to his fire, and soon Dan was touring the country with his first original show, Silent Comedy...Live! Undeterred by the fact that vaudeville was long dead, he cobbled a new vaudeville circuit out of colleges, theatres and schools. His Comedy Concertos, which blend lowbrow comedy with highbrow music, have become popular with symphonies nationwide.

Dan also creates special programs and pranks for corporate clients such as PPG Industries and Westinghouse. And sometimes he becomes The Corpozoid Man, an eerie character who strolls into arts festival crowds in slow motion, terrifying the very children who tormented him as a youth.
Dan returned to his comedy roots to write Charlie Chaplin's One-Man Show, revealing the secrets of Chaplin's comic art. Hailed as a breakthrough work, the book boasts a preface by another Chaplin fan, Marcel Marceau.

During recent seasons Dan has performed Comedy Concertos with symphonies from Syracuse to Sinapore, Delaware to Dallas, toured his solo show Comedy in Motion throughout America and England, and directed hit productions of several classic comedies in his home town of Pittsburgh.

By www.charlottesymphony.org