{"id":308387,"date":"2026-05-25T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308387\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:45:07","slug":"new-texas-sinfonia-invites-families-to-fiddle-zoo-instrument-petting-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308387\/","title":{"rendered":"New Texas Sinfonia invites families to \u2018Fiddle Zoo\u2019 instrument petting zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A Tyler chamber orchestra is inviting families to a hands-on musical experience Saturday with its \u201cFiddle Zoo for Kids,\u201d an instrument \u201cpetting zoo\u201d designed to spark curiosity and introduce children to classical music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Weston Jennings, artistic director for the New Texas Sinfonia, said the event will feature violins, cellos, flutes and bassoons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt gives (children) a chance to get to see the instrument up close to hear it,\u201d Jennings told East Texas Now. \u201cWe have different live performances and they get to actually play my violin if they\u2019d like to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In addition to instrument tryouts, the event includes music-themed games ranging from simple memory activities to challenging puzzles, plus \u201corchestra story time\u201d with instrument- and music-themed books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Live performances are also planned, including bassoon music featuring familiar selections like \u201cHarry Potter\u201d and \u201cThe Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fiddle Zoo for Kids runs from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Fellowship Hall on the First Presbyterian Church campus. A \u201cMostly Mozart\u201d concert follows at 3 p.m., with a pre-concert talk at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A Tyler chamber orchestra is inviting families to a hands-on musical experience Saturday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111496,111495,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-308387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chamber-orchestra","tag-new-texas-sinfonia","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}