The remarkable farkle mcbride series#

The string section - particularly the violin - takes the spotlight next, with the first movement of the “Spring” concerto from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” According to IMDb, the “Spring” movement has appeared in such films as “A View to a Kill,” “Pretty Woman,” “Up Close and Personal,” “Spy Game” and “Tropic Thunder.” To see these 60 people make these incredible sounds is an educational moment and a fascinating moment.”įrench and Silk Road connections: South Bend Symphony focuses on climate change with 'Terra Nostra' “But to see the string players play it and to see the intensity of the trumpeters is different. “Perhaps it’s important to know the real source of a piece of art,” Willis says. The overture’s finale, which also figures prominently in the film adaptation of “A Clockwork Orange,” opens with a thrilling theme from the trumpets that heralds the action to come and then goes on to feature the entire orchestra. “Everyone will recognize it but hearing it and seeing it played by an orchestra as opposed to a masked man on a white horse is a completely different experience.” “I grew up hearing that and thinking it was the ‘Lone Ranger’ theme and had no idea it was by an Italian composer,” Willis says. The concert, however, opens with one of the most famous uses of classical music as a film or television theme: the finale of Gioachino Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture. Becky is a proud wife and mother to twin daughters.The first five works on the program are short and popular pieces that have all been used in film and television productions, although Dmitri Kabalevsky’s aptly named “Galop” from “The Comedians” suite might not be as familiar as the other four: The percussion-centered work served as the theme song for the game show “Masquerade Party” in the 1950s and during its one-season revival in the 1970s. She received her Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Goucher College and has dual certification in both general and special education. Becky is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she received the Outstanding Achievement Award in Musical Theatre. Becky also directs the popular Camp Hippodrome for the Hippodrome Foundation, inc. In August 2022, she begins her tenure as BSA’s Head of Theatre.

Mossing has been the Musical Theatre instructor at the Baltimore School for the Arts for 16 years and was Director of TWIGS, BSA’s after school arts program for 9 years. Becky’s directing credits include The Polar Express and A Remarkable Farkle McBride with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Working, Our House, Hairspray, Rent, Elegies, and Urinetown, with Showdown Theatre Arts, U.K. Her cabaret performances have been seen frequently in the Baltimore area.

The remarkable farkle mcbride series#

Becky has narrated weekday and family series concerts for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra including Carnival of the Animals, The Remarkable Farkle McBride, Wizards and Wands, and A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

Credits include Beauty and the Beast (nat’l tour) Cinderella Waltz (Ubu Rep – Off B’way) Working with Showdown Theatre Arts, in Guildford, United Kingdom and both productions of Hairspray in Concert with John Waters and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Becky Mossing has performed all over America and overseas.