Family Concert: The Journey of Phillis Wheatley

The centerpiece of the concert will be Nkeiru Okoye’s The Journey of Phillis Wheatley, a musical story about a famous African-American poet in eighteenth-century Boston, with text by Carolivia Herron. This story will be narrated by the CSO’s own Carmen Hicks.

We are also pleased to invite young artist Talia Kee to the stage. Talia will perform the final movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the orchestra.

After the concert, children are invited to our instrument petting zoo, where they can try out strings, woodwind, and brass instruments themselves.