Storytime at the Symphony Online!

Thank you to Community Grants Fund of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc., for supporting the Musical Connections program, making this video series possible.

FSO Holiday Storytime with the Symphony 2020

Three Ducks Went Wandering

Rhythm and Rhyme: Headphone Herald, Shel Silverstein

The Waltzing Cat by Leroy Anderson

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

Walking the Dog

Featured Musician

Dr. Rebecca Libera – Second Bassoon

Dr. Rebecca Libera is currently a bassoon performer and private studio teacher, as well as the executive director of Music for a Great Space, a non-profit group committed to bringing great chamber music to the great spaces of Greensboro. She currently performs with the Fayetteville Symphony, Salisbury Symphony, Western Piedmont Symphony, and in various chamber ensembles, and has also performed with the North Carolina Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, and the Arizona Wind Symphony. Before relocating back to the Piedmont Triad in 2011, Rebecca was a K-8 Elementary General Music and Band teacher in Phoenix, AZ. Also a published author, her articles have appeared in the Journal of Band Research as well as Arizona Music News. In addition to her music teaching and performance, Rebecca is an Occupational Hearing Conservationist and a Hearing Instrument Specialist, working for a private audiology practice in Greensboro. A graduate of UNCG, Rebecca has taught at Wake Forest University and UNCG.

To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource. Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.

This organization is supported in part by a space grant from the BB&T Term Endowment of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.