Put on your PJs, grab your favorite stuffed animal, and join the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) for this year’s Family Concert Series: “Once Upon A Time…” This concert series celebrates the magic of fairy tales and each concert concludes with a beautiful lullaby that families share at home.

The series will continue with Ferdinand The Bull on Saturday, February 6 at 2:00pm at Davis Street School in New Haven and Sunday, February 7 at 2:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School. Strings are the focus of this concert, which will begin with a short medley taken from Robert Schumann’s Album for the Young. Connecticut soprano Anne Rhodes will narrate the beloved childhood tale Ferdinand the Bull, the story of a bull named Ferdinand who doesn’t like to fight, before singing Aaron Copland’s “Simple Gifts,” “The Little Horses,” and “I Bought Me A Cat.” The concert will end with the familiar, lilting waltz melody from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty.

Starting at 1:30pm before the concert, the NHSO will offer an Instrument Discovery Zone where children can tap, tickle, and toot real orchestral instruments before the 2:00 pm performance. Following the concert, families are invited to stay for a healthy snack. New Haven Reads will partner with the NHSO once again to provide free children’s books for everyone who attends the concert.

Tickets: Free Admission

The Family Concert Series is sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Pitney Bowes, and WMNR Fine Arts Radio.