Education/Community Bringing the joy of live music to young people throughout Maine! The Bangor Symphony Orchestra brings the joy of live music and the excitement of hands-on learning to school children and young people throughout Maine. Our Know Your Orchestra! program, Strings Attached, Youth Concerts, Concerto Competition, Access Music and Youth Orchestra each provide different opportunities for kids of all ages and backgrounds to experience music and to make it part of their lives. View a slideshow presentation of Maestro Xiao-Lu Li's November 2005 visit to Conners/Emerson School, Bar Harbor. Instrument Petting Zoo The BSO Instrument Petting Zoo travels to schools and BSO events around the state. Play the instruments the Bangor Symphony musicians play! Violin, clarinet, trombone...it's all there! This interactive program is a great opportunity to play and hear the different sounds from the wide variety of musical instruments. Have fun discovering your musical talents.  Find out when the Instrument Petting Zoo is in your area. "BSO Musicians Unbatoned!" This MUSE lecture series helps fund education programs. Beginning September 19, five musicians from the Bangor Symphony Orchestra will give an hour-long presentation on their particular instrument and speak about their own musical history. They will give information regarding their instrument followed by a brief recital. The monthly discussion series is presented by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra at Dirigo Pines. The series is moderated by Surya Mitchell of the BSO staff. Contact the Bangor Symphony box office to attend the discussion series or to hold one at another venue. Making Music in a Mad World A music history lecture series. Presented by Surya Mitchell at Parker Ridge in Blue Hill. Begins February 12 and runs for five weeks. Sponsored by: Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation; City of Bangor, Union Trust; Margaret E. Burnham Trust, Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust, Simmons Foundation, Banknorth; Fisher Foundation, Target Stores

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Sunday, May 11, 2008: Famous Fifths Schubert: Symphony in B flat major, no. 5 Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Mozart: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, K. 22 Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 47

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