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The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota is cueing up a family-friendly concert Sunday, Dec. 4, that features music and clips from childhood favorites such as 

The Chamber Music Society is a bijou in St. Paul that was founded in 1992 by artist director Young-Nam Kim. It seeks to promote upcoming artists in classical music.

 will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday in Sundin Music Hall at Hamline University in St. Paul. (Admission is free for students K-12, $20 for seniors and $25 for adults.)

Also on the program is “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from 

 and “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from 

Gabriel Campos Zamora, principal clarinet of the Minnesota Orchestra, also will be featured in some of the songs and in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet.  

Completing the ensemble will be Kim and Arian Kim on violin, Sabina Thatcher on viola, Anthony Ross on cello and Timothy Lovelace on piano.

Ally Thompson is a classical digital intern for YourClassical MPR. She attends the University of Minnesota, where she is majoring in journalism. She played saxophone and clarinet in band, attends orchestra concerts regularly and has listened to YourClassical MPR since she was young. She studies to classical music, which she says helps her concentrate. 


Ally Thompson

The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota is cueing up a family-friendly concert Sunday, Dec. 4, in St. Paul that features music and clips from childhood favorites such as ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘Bambi.’


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