December 16, 2025 • 14 mins
We spoke with Andrew Robbin, Director of Learning and Social Impact, about how the Hartford Symphony Orchestra uses the power of music to connect, educate, and inspire people across schools, health care facilities, and community spaces.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Allison Demurs. My guest this morning is Andrew Robbin. He
is Director of Learning and Social Impact at the Hartford
Symphony Orchestra. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am great, Alison, Thank you so much for having
me today.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh it's my pleasure. Who doesn't love the Hartford Symphony
Orchestra gives you chills, get goosebumps on your arms, the
hair stands up because it's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Absolutely, and not.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Only is the music create Every major city has their
own orchestra, and as Hartford sometimes we look up north
and south of Boston, New York. We are a major
city with a major orchestra that is absolutely phenomenal. So
I'm happy to be here on the show today to
talk more about what we do.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So you have a learning and social impact program that
brings classical music out of the concert hall into other places.
Tell me about that, Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And that's what I get to head up. I have
the luxury and the honor of putting our musicians in
a lots of different places. The Hartford Symphony Orchestra's mission
statement is to enrich lives and community through great music,
and that does not mean it only has to happen
in the Bushnell, which is where our masterworks are. So
I'm fortunate enough to make arrangements so that our musicians
(01:11):
play in lots of different areas. It could be a
senior living center, it could be a healthcare center. We
are in schools, we're at community groups, we're in libraries,
we are all over the place in the Greater Hertford
area and am able to do lots of different type
of programming. Our thought is, if people can't come to
(01:31):
the Bushnell for the music, we need to bring the
music to them.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So that's what I get to do all day long.
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh man, God just kissed you on the face. You
got the best job in the world next to me. Anyway,
when you say we, you're talking about your team.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yes, the team and the musicians. So I am a
department of too. There's myself and my manager, Jennifer Shipps,
and then we work with I think last year we
probably worked with one hundred and eighty different musicians, ranging
from violinists to the soonest. We got ovoist, we got viola's,
we got cellos, we got strings, we got brass, wind percussion.
(02:08):
So pretty much anything that we can bring out to
the public that relates to our music is what we do.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I love that it's beautiful. So let's talk about those
community programs like library concerts.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Sure, So let's start with library concerts. This year, we
have coming up where we're going to the Hartford Library
and we're bringing a string quartet that will play our
press Play Material, which is a program that we do
that takes modern popular music and plays it with the
string quartet. We So our concerts coming up February twenty
fifth that will be focused in on anime music and
(02:44):
music from the eighties. We will also be in the
Avon Library and then a couple of other community events
doing family programming. We're going to have a string quartet
playing music about weather, a wind ensemble talking about the
powerful power of wind, and then another string quartet on
missmaking and all this can be found on our website,
Harperdsymphony dot org. So those are some of the concerts
(03:06):
that we do in libraries. And because libraries are the
central points of communities and if we can bring music there,
we can reach a different audience that may or may
not have heard us before.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And is there an admission price.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Nope, all of these, all those concerts are free of charge.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Wow, amazing. You also have the Musician's Care Project and
Strings of Hope. Let's talk about those.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Sure. So the Musician's Care Project, that's when we are
lucky enough to go to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center
where we go into their TV studio and they have
an in house network and we have musicians perform or
talk about their instruments. We just were there last month
and we had our two frog deal talk about how
violins are made and the different parts that come from
(03:53):
different parts of the world, and then they played music
that represented that part of the world. We go to St.
Franci's Hospital and sometimes we play that big Best of
dule on the way in. My favorite, though, is when
we go into people who are receiving treatment for cancer
and we play for the patients and the wonderful nurses
and staff there. You know, that's something precious to my
(04:15):
heart and I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We can share it that way.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We also go to a lot of senior living centers.
We've been at Seabury and none Caster and Live Well
and you know it's hard for some of the older
patrons to actually make it to the Bushnol. So we'll
bring them a brass quintet or a wind ensemble. So
those are some of our musician Cares projects that we do.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, tell me, what's it like to see these people's
reactions or the children's the patients. What's that like for you?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So if you've been to a concert at the Bushmoll,
you know, people keep in their emotions and explode at
the end of the piece. What's wonderful about these musician
cares is you can read it all over their faces
and sometimes they can't contain themselves and they have to
start clapping.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
But it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean, the piece that goes over those who are
receiving treatments is incredible, you know. But just the recognition
of what music can do and how powerful it is
for the soul and healing, it just brings everyone together.
So it's you know, while it's great to hear the
wonderful music, watching the people's reaction and engaging in their
own way to music that they're hearing is truly special.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I love that you said it's healing because it is.
When I was a child, I was four years old,
my parents bought me an organ, and I went up
to my room and I just learned to play on
my own. And again it was over the years when
I found things would happen in my life. Let's say
I would go to that organ I play and it
was cathartic.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, yes, and that's wonderful, and that's part of what
spurs us to do what we do. We think about
areas of how can music bring joy, how can music
bring healing? How can music build us to work all together?
And that's again that's the Learning and Social Impact department.
We have the best job in the world would be
able to do all these wonderful things.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So we also talked about Strings of Hope. Maybe you
could explain that to me, Yes, I would love to.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So going off that notion of music bringing people together
and community and the joy that it brings. We started
something last called Strings of Hope and it's a string
quartet that would go into initially places of spirituality and
kind of do a shared stage, a collaborative program and
an experience together. So last year we went we worked
(06:30):
with at church in Hartford, the Metropolitan am Sign Church,
and we played music and the choir saying and they
have a trombone and piano who played part, and we
did music that kind of celebrates just our being together.
We also went into a Hindu temple and Middletown and
then a Jewish temple in Simsbury. And this year we're
(06:51):
repeating the program, well we're repeating the theme of the program,
but our scene this year is joy and how music
brings joy to everyone. So we're going to share stage again.
We'll be at the Strengths of Hope. First performance will
be at the Metropolitan Ammi Zion Church in Hartford on
January twenty seventh, and then we will have two other
concerts that are on our website, one at the Avon
(07:12):
Library and we'll be focusing in on dancing. We're fortunate
to have a Hindu dance studio that will be performing
with us. And then we will be at the Farmsting
Valley Jewish Congregation in Simsbury and May. Again. The whole
idea is music is supposed to bring people together. Right.
It's a collaborative experience, whether you're playing together, whether you're listening,
(07:33):
or whether you're doing something together.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So that's how that idea came up.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Really a neat experience and again that January day's coming up.
And if you haven't been to the met we call
the met Zion Church, it is a phenomenal location with
great acoustics, and you.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Also have education programs we do.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We are very fortunate to go into schools and our
education programs can range from you know, just working with
music to tie into the curriculum to huge concerts that
we do here at the Bushmill too. So a lot
of our work looks were asked to come in play
music for groups of kids, and we're really lucky this
(08:13):
year to work closely with the Harvard Schools. We're tying
it in directly to their curriculum.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So just last week.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We were in working with two kindergarteners who were learning
about farm. So we had a string quartet playing lots
of music that was inspired by farm. One of the
pieces they played mimiced a bird. Then they actually played
Old McDonald how a Farm, which, believe me, if you've
never heard a string quartet perform it, it is a
very deep and meaningful song when they do that, and
(08:40):
they've performed all these different variations. And then that same
day we actually were in a second grade performance of
Weather and How the season changed, so our musicians talked
about Vivaldi's four seasons and how the students recognized how
the music represented different seasons.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So we're lucky to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We also do coach, so we'll go into schools Farmington,
Avon and a Grace Academy Hartford Schools and work with
students who are learning their instruments and whether it's an
orchestra in the band, so they might show them some techniques,
talk about their career. It's really fun to be with
the schools. And then the big thing we do though, Alison,
we have these Discovery concerts, and we had one right
(09:21):
before Thanksgiving, so it's a daytime concert where we have
students come into the bushvill and watch.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
A full orchestra performance.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So a couple of weeks ago we developed a program
based on the Hartford Public Schools curriculum of I'm a
Survivor was the title of it, so we talked about
resiliency and observations and the skills needed.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
To become a survivor and how it tied into music.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
We are fortunate to have our Young Artist Competition winner
from last year, Mindi Zao, a violinist at Yale. She
played a piece for the kids which they loved, and
then of course we ended with Ie of the Tiger
with a sing along, so the kids were singing to
in the orchestra playing Ie of the Tiger and it
was just a wonderful experience. We have two more coming up.
You can buy tickets for our schools can buy tickets
(10:06):
for our March concert where the scene will be seasons.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Does this have anything to do with the Young Artist
Competition or is this something separate?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So it's something separate from the Young Artist Competition. The
Young Artist Competition is an event that takes place. Actually,
submissions are due in January where residents of Connecticut or
students attending Connecticut high schools are allowed to apply for
this Young Artist Competition. They send in videos, they're scored
(10:35):
by judges. Then we have a second round where they
perform live to the judges, and then the finals, which
are open to the public. The musicians will be performing
a concerto being live judged, and we choose a winner.
We select the winner after that performance, and what the
winner receives besides something to help them in their music
(10:56):
career financially, they also received the opportunity to perform with
the Hartford Simpsony.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wow. Yes, brilliant. You guys are amazing everything that you're doing,
so appreciate you. The last thing I want to ask
you about is what is the Hartford Symphony Orchestra up to?
Are they doing anything now or into the new year.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yes. So coming up this afternoon we have Winter Dreams.
It's a three o'clock performance featuring our artists in residence.
His name is Curtis Stewart. He is a violinist. He
is performing his own interpretation of the four Seasons called
Seasons of Change.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He was just nominated for Grammy.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Too, and it's a nice visual and auditory performance on
how climate change has impacted the world these days and
his take on that. So that's what we have coming
up soon. We also have the Nutcracker is going to
be taking place with the Connecticut Ballet. They are using
a live orchestra this year, so we're fortunate to be
(12:02):
supporting them in their performance there and then looking into
the new year. You know, we don't rest. I'm sure
you figured that out pretty quickly. We have a free
concert on January twenty second, honoring Martin Luther King Junior,
called the fierce urgency of now. Then we talked about
our Strings of Hope on January twenty seventh, and then
last concert in January, and this is a picted event.
It's called pressed Play, So that's where we take kind
(12:26):
of modern music and perform in a string quartet at
Jay under the Doman Hartford. So it's a really cool
way to hear different interpretations of music. Our January twenty
nineteen theme is anime, so we're going to be looking
at music from anime performed by a string quartet. We
also had a concert earlier on Rock Anthems. Later on
for press Play, we have in March every Woman celebrating
(12:49):
Women's History Month, and then our final concert is the Nineties.
That's something our department leads up as part of the
learning and social impact. So yeah, we're a little busy, Allison,
I'm sure you figure that out.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Holy Kyle, you're really really busy. One of the big
things is you want people to understand that classical music
is not just for the fancy or the wealthy.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Correct. It is for everybody, And our department's goals are
to make the music accessible and relevant, and we've tried
lots of different methods to do that, and our world
class musicians are able to take anything and turn it
into just a beautiful piece of music.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Absolutely, Wow, what a wonderful conversation this has been for me.
I really really enjoyed it. I'm speaking with Andrew Robin.
He is director of Learning and Social Impact Programs over
at the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Again, for all of the
dates and all of the different programs and services that
they offer, go to Hartfordsymphony dot org. Andrew, it was
(13:47):
such a pleasure speaking with you. Thank you so much
for all you do.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Oh, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Alis and I could talk about this for hours. I
love what we do, and I just want people to
know how many different options they have out there for music,
and hopefully they can choose to be a part of
the symphony.
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Allison Demurs. My guest this morning is Andrew Robbin. He
is Director of Learning and Social Impact at the Hartford
Symphony Orchestra. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am great, Alison, Thank you so much for having
me today.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh it's my pleasure. Who doesn't love the Hartford Symphony
Orchestra gives you chills, get goosebumps on your arms, the
hair stands up because it's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Absolutely, and not.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Only is the music create Every major city has their
own orchestra, and as Hartford sometimes we look up north
and south of Boston, New York. We are a major
city with a major orchestra that is absolutely phenomenal. So
I'm happy to be here on the show today to
talk more about what we do.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So you have a learning and social impact program that
brings classical music out of the concert hall into other places.
Tell me about that, Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And that's what I get to head up. I have
the luxury and the honor of putting our musicians in
a lots of different places. The Hartford Symphony Orchestra's mission
statement is to enrich lives and community through great music,
and that does not mean it only has to happen
in the Bushnell, which is where our masterworks are. So
I'm fortunate enough to make arrangements so that our musicians
(01:11):
play in lots of different areas. It could be a
senior living center, it could be a healthcare center. We
are in schools, we're at community groups, we're in libraries,
we are all over the place in the Greater Hertford
area and am able to do lots of different type
of programming. Our thought is, if people can't come to
(01:31):
the Bushnell for the music, we need to bring the
music to them.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So that's what I get to do all day long.
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh man, God just kissed you on the face. You
got the best job in the world next to me. Anyway,
when you say we, you're talking about your team.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yes, the team and the musicians. So I am a
department of too. There's myself and my manager, Jennifer Shipps,
and then we work with I think last year we
probably worked with one hundred and eighty different musicians, ranging
from violinists to the soonest. We got ovoist, we got viola's,
we got cellos, we got strings, we got brass, wind percussion.
(02:08):
So pretty much anything that we can bring out to
the public that relates to our music is what we do.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I love that it's beautiful. So let's talk about those
community programs like library concerts.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Sure, So let's start with library concerts. This year, we
have coming up where we're going to the Hartford Library
and we're bringing a string quartet that will play our
press Play Material, which is a program that we do
that takes modern popular music and plays it with the
string quartet. We So our concerts coming up February twenty
fifth that will be focused in on anime music and
(02:44):
music from the eighties. We will also be in the
Avon Library and then a couple of other community events
doing family programming. We're going to have a string quartet
playing music about weather, a wind ensemble talking about the
powerful power of wind, and then another string quartet on
missmaking and all this can be found on our website,
Harperdsymphony dot org. So those are some of the concerts
(03:06):
that we do in libraries. And because libraries are the
central points of communities and if we can bring music there,
we can reach a different audience that may or may
not have heard us before.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And is there an admission price.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Nope, all of these, all those concerts are free of charge.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Wow, amazing. You also have the Musician's Care Project and
Strings of Hope. Let's talk about those.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Sure. So the Musician's Care Project, that's when we are
lucky enough to go to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center
where we go into their TV studio and they have
an in house network and we have musicians perform or
talk about their instruments. We just were there last month
and we had our two frog deal talk about how
violins are made and the different parts that come from
(03:53):
different parts of the world, and then they played music
that represented that part of the world. We go to St.
Franci's Hospital and sometimes we play that big Best of
dule on the way in. My favorite, though, is when
we go into people who are receiving treatment for cancer
and we play for the patients and the wonderful nurses
and staff there. You know, that's something precious to my
(04:15):
heart and I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We can share it that way.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We also go to a lot of senior living centers.
We've been at Seabury and none Caster and Live Well
and you know it's hard for some of the older
patrons to actually make it to the Bushnol. So we'll
bring them a brass quintet or a wind ensemble. So
those are some of our musician Cares projects that we do.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, tell me, what's it like to see these people's
reactions or the children's the patients. What's that like for you?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So if you've been to a concert at the Bushmoll,
you know, people keep in their emotions and explode at
the end of the piece. What's wonderful about these musician
cares is you can read it all over their faces
and sometimes they can't contain themselves and they have to
start clapping.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
But it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean, the piece that goes over those who are
receiving treatments is incredible, you know. But just the recognition
of what music can do and how powerful it is
for the soul and healing, it just brings everyone together.
So it's you know, while it's great to hear the
wonderful music, watching the people's reaction and engaging in their
own way to music that they're hearing is truly special.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I love that you said it's healing because it is.
When I was a child, I was four years old,
my parents bought me an organ, and I went up
to my room and I just learned to play on
my own. And again it was over the years when
I found things would happen in my life. Let's say
I would go to that organ I play and it
was cathartic.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, yes, and that's wonderful, and that's part of what
spurs us to do what we do. We think about
areas of how can music bring joy, how can music
bring healing? How can music build us to work all together?
And that's again that's the Learning and Social Impact department.
We have the best job in the world would be
able to do all these wonderful things.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So we also talked about Strings of Hope. Maybe you
could explain that to me, Yes, I would love to.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So going off that notion of music bringing people together
and community and the joy that it brings. We started
something last called Strings of Hope and it's a string
quartet that would go into initially places of spirituality and
kind of do a shared stage, a collaborative program and
an experience together. So last year we went we worked
(06:30):
with at church in Hartford, the Metropolitan am Sign Church,
and we played music and the choir saying and they
have a trombone and piano who played part, and we
did music that kind of celebrates just our being together.
We also went into a Hindu temple and Middletown and
then a Jewish temple in Simsbury. And this year we're
(06:51):
repeating the program, well we're repeating the theme of the program,
but our scene this year is joy and how music
brings joy to everyone. So we're going to share stage again.
We'll be at the Strengths of Hope. First performance will
be at the Metropolitan Ammi Zion Church in Hartford on
January twenty seventh, and then we will have two other
concerts that are on our website, one at the Avon
(07:12):
Library and we'll be focusing in on dancing. We're fortunate
to have a Hindu dance studio that will be performing
with us. And then we will be at the Farmsting
Valley Jewish Congregation in Simsbury and May. Again. The whole
idea is music is supposed to bring people together. Right.
It's a collaborative experience, whether you're playing together, whether you're listening,
(07:33):
or whether you're doing something together.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So that's how that idea came up.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Really a neat experience and again that January day's coming up.
And if you haven't been to the met we call
the met Zion Church, it is a phenomenal location with
great acoustics, and you.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Also have education programs we do.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We are very fortunate to go into schools and our
education programs can range from you know, just working with
music to tie into the curriculum to huge concerts that
we do here at the Bushmill too. So a lot
of our work looks were asked to come in play
music for groups of kids, and we're really lucky this
(08:13):
year to work closely with the Harvard Schools. We're tying
it in directly to their curriculum.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So just last week.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We were in working with two kindergarteners who were learning
about farm. So we had a string quartet playing lots
of music that was inspired by farm. One of the
pieces they played mimiced a bird. Then they actually played
Old McDonald how a Farm, which, believe me, if you've
never heard a string quartet perform it, it is a
very deep and meaningful song when they do that, and
(08:40):
they've performed all these different variations. And then that same
day we actually were in a second grade performance of
Weather and How the season changed, so our musicians talked
about Vivaldi's four seasons and how the students recognized how
the music represented different seasons.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So we're lucky to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We also do coach, so we'll go into schools Farmington,
Avon and a Grace Academy Hartford Schools and work with
students who are learning their instruments and whether it's an
orchestra in the band, so they might show them some techniques,
talk about their career. It's really fun to be with
the schools. And then the big thing we do though, Alison,
we have these Discovery concerts, and we had one right
(09:21):
before Thanksgiving, so it's a daytime concert where we have
students come into the bushvill and watch.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
A full orchestra performance.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So a couple of weeks ago we developed a program
based on the Hartford Public Schools curriculum of I'm a
Survivor was the title of it, so we talked about
resiliency and observations and the skills needed.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
To become a survivor and how it tied into music.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
We are fortunate to have our Young Artist Competition winner
from last year, Mindi Zao, a violinist at Yale. She
played a piece for the kids which they loved, and
then of course we ended with Ie of the Tiger
with a sing along, so the kids were singing to
in the orchestra playing Ie of the Tiger and it
was just a wonderful experience. We have two more coming up.
You can buy tickets for our schools can buy tickets
(10:06):
for our March concert where the scene will be seasons.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Does this have anything to do with the Young Artist
Competition or is this something separate?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So it's something separate from the Young Artist Competition. The
Young Artist Competition is an event that takes place. Actually,
submissions are due in January where residents of Connecticut or
students attending Connecticut high schools are allowed to apply for
this Young Artist Competition. They send in videos, they're scored
(10:35):
by judges. Then we have a second round where they
perform live to the judges, and then the finals, which
are open to the public. The musicians will be performing
a concerto being live judged, and we choose a winner.
We select the winner after that performance, and what the
winner receives besides something to help them in their music
(10:56):
career financially, they also received the opportunity to perform with
the Hartford Simpsony.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wow. Yes, brilliant. You guys are amazing everything that you're doing,
so appreciate you. The last thing I want to ask
you about is what is the Hartford Symphony Orchestra up to?
Are they doing anything now or into the new year.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yes. So coming up this afternoon we have Winter Dreams.
It's a three o'clock performance featuring our artists in residence.
His name is Curtis Stewart. He is a violinist. He
is performing his own interpretation of the four Seasons called
Seasons of Change.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He was just nominated for Grammy.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Too, and it's a nice visual and auditory performance on
how climate change has impacted the world these days and
his take on that. So that's what we have coming
up soon. We also have the Nutcracker is going to
be taking place with the Connecticut Ballet. They are using
a live orchestra this year, so we're fortunate to be
(12:02):
supporting them in their performance there and then looking into
the new year. You know, we don't rest. I'm sure
you figured that out pretty quickly. We have a free
concert on January twenty second, honoring Martin Luther King Junior,
called the fierce urgency of now. Then we talked about
our Strings of Hope on January twenty seventh, and then
last concert in January, and this is a picted event.
It's called pressed Play, So that's where we take kind
(12:26):
of modern music and perform in a string quartet at
Jay under the Doman Hartford. So it's a really cool
way to hear different interpretations of music. Our January twenty
nineteen theme is anime, so we're going to be looking
at music from anime performed by a string quartet. We
also had a concert earlier on Rock Anthems. Later on
for press Play, we have in March every Woman celebrating
(12:49):
Women's History Month, and then our final concert is the Nineties.
That's something our department leads up as part of the
learning and social impact. So yeah, we're a little busy, Allison,
I'm sure you figure that out.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Holy Kyle, you're really really busy. One of the big
things is you want people to understand that classical music
is not just for the fancy or the wealthy.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Correct. It is for everybody, And our department's goals are
to make the music accessible and relevant, and we've tried
lots of different methods to do that, and our world
class musicians are able to take anything and turn it
into just a beautiful piece of music.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Absolutely, Wow, what a wonderful conversation this has been for me.
I really really enjoyed it. I'm speaking with Andrew Robin.
He is director of Learning and Social Impact Programs over
at the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Again, for all of the
dates and all of the different programs and services that
they offer, go to Hartfordsymphony dot org. Andrew, it was
(13:47):
such a pleasure speaking with you. Thank you so much
for all you do.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Oh, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Alis and I could talk about this for hours. I
love what we do, and I just want people to
know how many different options they have out there for music,
and hopefully they can choose to be a part of
the symphony.
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