{"id":10285,"date":"2014-02-21T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub.passdrop.me\/2014\/02\/21\/st-louis-symphony-donates-bassoon-to-marissa-school-district\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:11:31","slug":"st-louis-symphony-donates-bassoon-to-marissa-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/symphony.org\/st-louis-symphony-donates-bassoon-to-marissa-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Symphony donates bassoon to Marissa school district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In Tuesday\u2019s (2\/18) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnd.com\/2014\/02\/18\/3066046\/big-day-in-marissa-st-louis-symphony.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>News-Democrat<\/em><\/a> (Missouri), Jamie Forsythe  reports, \u201cWith a calm demeanor and a determined look in his eye,  11-year-old Austin Gilley played the bassoon for the first time Tuesday  afternoon.  The sixth-grader at Marissa Elementary School received his first lesson from three bassoonists with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. \u2018It was like getting a Grammy award,\u2019 Austin said after his lesson. \u2018I think it was pretty cool.\u2019 David Robertson, the symphony\u2019s music director, donated the bassoon to Marissa Community Unit School District 40 in memory of bassoonist Andrew Thompson, 27, who unexpectedly died late last year.\u2026 Bassoonists Andrew Cuneo, Andrew Gott and Felicia Foland visited the elementary school Wednesday to donate the instrument to the school.\u2026 Austin\u2019s fellow sixth-graders\u2014all 42 of them\u2014weren\u2019t left out. Before school released Tuesday, they were treated to a brief performance by the bassoon trio.\u2026 For the last 10 years, students from Marissa Elementary have attended a rehearsal of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra every year. This initiative appropriately named \u2018Opera-Tunity\u2019 was spearheaded by Grammy Award-winning American soprano Christine Brewer of Lebanon and [sixth-grade teacher Nancy] Wagner, who are friends.\u201d The article is accompanied by a video report.  <\/p>\n<p>Posted February 21, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p \/>In Tuesday\u2019s (2\/18) <em>News-Democrat<\/em> (Missouri), Jamie Forsythe reports, \u201cWith a calm demeanor and a determined look in his eye, 11-year-old Austin Gilley played the bassoon for the first time Tuesday afternoon&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>St. Louis Symphony donates bassoon to Marissa school district - 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