Hilltown Families 
HFVS Giveaway: (Tickets) Bill Harley with the Pioneer Valley Symphony
FREE TICKETS
Special Family Performance
with the Pioneer Valley Symphony featuring
2009 Grammy Storyteller BILL HARLEY
and Peter and the Wolf
Greenfield High School Auditorium in Greenfield, MA
On Saturday, March 28th, 2009 @ 7pm
We are pleased to offer four free tickets to see the Pioneer Valley Symphony (PVS) featuring Grammy winning storyteller, Bill Harley and Peter and the Wolf in Greenfield, MA at the Greenfield High School Auditorium on Saturday, March 28th, at 7 pm, courtesy of PVS. Deadline to enter is Wednesday, 03/25/09 @ 7pm (EST). More details below.
This PVS Special Family Performance line-up will includes:
- JOHN WILLIAMS – Harry Potter Symphonic Suite
- BILL HARLEY – There’s a Pea on My Plate
- BILL HARLEY & PAUL PHILLIPS – Come On Out and Play
- SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Peter and the Wolf (narrated by Bill Harley)
- BILL HARLEY – You’re In Trouble
BILL HARLEY
Two copies of the DVD, Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live, which won the 2009 GRAMMY AWARD for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, will be offered too.
Bill Harley uses song and story to paint a vibrant picture of growing up, parenting and family life. Poignant and hilarious, his work spans the generation gap, reminds us of our common humanity and challenges us to be our very best selves. A prolific author and recording artist, Bill is also a regular commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered and featured on PBS. Harley’s newest recording, a live performance CD set and DVD, Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live won the 2009 GRAMMY AWARD for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, and has been the featured storyteller on Hilltown Family Variety Show numerous times! Click HERE to see videos of Bill’s live performances.
At his website, BillHarley.com, educators can find resources and curriculum to many of his songs and stories, including Come Out and Play (pdf) and You’re in Trouble (pdf), both being presented at this PVS Special Family Performance.
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY
Bill Harley will be narrating Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf at the PVS Special Family Performance. Sergei Prokofiev was a great twentieth century Russian composer. He composed a number of pieces for young listeners and performers. The director of the Moscow Children’s Musical Theater asked him to compose something for them to perform and they decided to have a story about a child and a group of animals, in which each animal would be given a theme using a different instrument of the orchestra so that the audience would learn how the instruments look and sound.
- Prokofiev wrote the story of Peter and the Wolf, becoming one of his best-loved and most popular orchestra work for children.
- Minnesota Orchestra has put together a 52-page curriculum to accompany Peter and the Wolf.
- PVS will be participating in the Orchestras Feeding America National Food Drive.
HOW TO WIN
Your chance to win tickets to see the Bill Harley with the Pioneer Valley Symphony is as easy as 2-4-6! To win simply
- POST A COMMENT BELOW and be sure to tell us your
- FULL NAME and where you
- LIVE (TOWN/STATE) PLEASE include your town and state to be eligible. We’ll randomly draw a winner(s) from those who leave a comment (along with their full name and town/state) and post the results below.
- We have up to four free tickets to offer, so be sure to include how many tickets you would like to win.
- ACCURATE EMAIL (we never share your email address).
- The winner will be contacted with details on how to retrieve tickets via email upon the close of the contest.
IT’S THAT SIMPLE! — Deadline is Wednesday, 03/25/09 @ 7pm (EST).
Two runner ups will receive a copy of Bill Harley’s DVD, Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live which won the 2009 GRAMMY AWARD for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
If you don’t win you should still go! Tickets are available here.
Remember to include:
- FULL NAME
- TOWN (just the town, no addresses please)
- NUMBER OF TICKETS
in your comment to be eligible.
hi – i live in south hadley with 2 boys, ages 4 and 6, whom are OBSESSED with peter and the wolf. after borrowing a copy from the library – we have been listening to it non-stop! would love to attend, we’d need 4 tickets.
thanks so much!
melissa
Congratulations to Laura Mazza of Florence, MA on winning two free tickets to see the Pioneer Valley Symphony (PVS) featuring Grammy winning storyteller, Bill Harley and Peter and the Wolf in Greenfield, MA at the Greenfield High School Auditorium on Saturday, March 28th, at 7 pm, courtesy of PVS.
Two more tickets are being awarded to Helen Kahn, also of Florence, MA who was the second name to be selected from our random drawing.
And congratulations to Victoria Worth of Ashfield, MA who won a copy of Bill Harley’s DVD, Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live, which won the 2009 GRAMMY AWARD for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Thanks to PVS for offering tickets and to everyone for posting a comment to enter to win. Be sure to check back for upcoming promotions and giveaways … or better yet, subscribe to our newsfeed and local listserv and don’t miss our next media contest/giveaway!
My Mom use to take us to the Philadelphia Children’s Concerts.
She’s coming up this weekend, how cool if I could take her with my daughter, her grandaughter…
Thanx – 4 would be fabulous!
Marla, West Chesterfield, MA
Hi! We are in Greenfield and we’d love to win 4 tickets! Thanks for offering them! :)
Steve and I would love to take Charlotte for her birthday! So, three would be great.
Looking forward to going.
Cheers, Victoria, from Ashfield
We have an old vinyl copy of Peter and the wolf that i listened to enough as a child that my parents took up the nickname “Peter and the wolf.” Now my kids have started to hear it. I love the way a live performance makes it exciting and real.
Peter and Kathy in Florence
4 tickets would be fantastic!
Peter, Peter, real light sleeper,
had a wolf and couldn’t keep ‘er
Put her in a symphony
and ‘ere she howled happily
4 tickets, please
Liz Jacobson-Carroll
Buckland, MA
liz@jacobson.net
I’ve talked to Fia so many times about this story I’d love to have her see it and I’d probably enjoy it as much as her. Thank you for this opportunity.
We’d like two tickets
Florence, MA
Peter and the Wolf was the first concert I went to as a child at Springfield Symphony Hall. Great memory. Also had the lp — wonder where it could be now! 2 tickets.
Deb O.
What a wonderful event! Kai & I would love to go!
Christy Winslow
Williamsburg MA
peter & the wolf was my favorite album as a child, my version was narrated by Captain Kangaroo, the characters were played by musical instruments. From what I remember the album was put out by International House of Pancake (of all places)
Ashfield, MA
Oh!
How I would love to take my friend and her two daughters!
Heather van Werkhooven
Cummington MA 01026
Music, storytelling, hilltown families — these are a few of my favorite things!
Helen Kahn
Florence, MA
4 tickets would be perfect!
Peter and the wolf are good and scary
Peter and the Wolf are big and hairy
Peter makes one sound, the Wolf another
And they all end up as one, symphony!