DEARBORN – Mayor Abdullah Hammoud will narrate a symphonic fairy tale for children during the Dearborn Symphony’s “Mozart Meets Peter and the Wolf” at 8 p.m. March 4 at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, 15801 Michigan Ave.
Hammoud joins a distinguished list of narrators for this work such as Viola Davis, rock legend Alice Cooper and even Boris Karloff. He will place the characters in your imagination while the Dearborn Symphony, under the baton of Maestro Steven Jarvi, delightfully performs this lovely Russian classic.
The program opens with the thrilling first movement of Mozart’s “Symphony No. 1,” written at the tender age of 8.
Also featured on the program is Dearborn Symphony principal clarinet, Nickolas Hamblin, performing Mozart’s “Clarinet Concerto.” This work is the only concerto for clarinet written by Mozart and was completed in the final few months of his life. It opens with a mood of gracious lyricism and takes advantage of everything the clarinet has to offer.
Tickets range from $15 to $35 and are available by phoning the Symphony at 313-565-2424 or the theater box office at 313-943-2354. Go to dearbornsymphony.org for more information.
The Dearborn Symphony has partnered with local restaurants for “Dinner and a Concert.” The restaurants — Roman Village, Antonio’s in Dearborn Heights and Canton, La Pita, Mint 29, and TRIA at The Henry — offer a 20 percent discount to symphony ticket-holders on concert nights. Reservations are recommended.
Season sponsors include Ford Land, Dearborn Sausage Co., Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Kresge Foundation.