CONCERTS & EVENTS

Family Fun 4 Everyone: Sensory-Friendly Concert

Woolner Stage
Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts
2 E South St.
Raleigh, NC 27601

Performers

  • North Carolina Symphony
  • Grant Llewellyn, conductor
  • Lisa Jolley, vocalist

About This Performance

This concert experience is welcoming to all families—including people with autism or other sensory sensitivities. At this one-hour, fun-filled performance, enjoy classical favorites. Come early to try out instruments at our Instrument Zoo and meet new friends!

Sensory-Friendly Accommodations for this performance include:
  • Designated quiet space available throughout the concert
  • Social story preparing audiences for the concert experience, provided ahead of concert day
  • Patrons may leave and re-enter the concert hall during the performance
  • Wheelchair seating, ASL interpretation, Braille & large-print programs
  • Patrons are welcome and encouraged to move, clap, sing, and dance!

Program

Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Menken/Ashman: “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid
Meet the strings section
Meet the woodwind section
Beach: Bal masqué
Meet the brass section
Joplin: The Entertainer
Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky: Trepak from The Nutcracker
Meet the percussion section
Offenbach: “Can-Can” from Orpheus in the Underworld
Sondheim: “Anyone Can Whistle”
Traditional/Brackett: “Simple Gifts”
Zequinha de Abreu: Tico-Tico no fubá


The North Carolina Symphony is committed to providing a first-class concert experience for all individuals. View accessible services here.

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