

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Family Concert: Joy of the Symphony
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Share in the joys of orchestral music at the DSO’s annual family concert on March 29 at 2:00 p.m. at the Lesher Center for the Arts. The concert—"Joy of the Symphony”—showcases the instruments of the orchestra in Benjamin Britten’s virtuosic “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” narrated by local storyteller Josh Kornbluth. Based on a theme by seventeenth-century Baroque composer Henry Purcell, this brilliant introduction to orchestral instruments highlights the woodwind, brass, string, and percussion families individually before uniting them in a final fugue. The joy of orchestral music will also be highlighted in the exciting “Star Wars, Main Theme” by John Williams and Mozart’s overture from The Abduction from the Seraglio.
The program also features the DSO’s 2026 Yen Liang Young Artist Competition winner, Ellie Xuan, who join forces with the orchestra for the first movement of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. Xuan is a seventh-grade student at Gale Ranch Middle School in San Ramon. She studies piano with Dr. Chia-Lin Yang, a faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College Division. 

Kornbluth is known in the Bay Area for his one-man shows that humorously draw a connection between his own personal foibles and larger issues relating to personal and societal ethics and the individual’s role in society. His concert film The Mathematics of Change—filmed in the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley—tells the uproarious story of a young aspiring mathematician who unexpectedly discovers his limitations as a Princeton University freshman (Kornbluth himself left Princeton before graduating). He also hosted an interview show on public TV station KQED for two years. 

Find links to tickets and guest artist bios at https://www.diablosymphony.org/events/family-concert-joy-of-the-symphony/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/walnut-creek/family-concert-joy-of-the-symphony/200029760723831
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, music, concerts, art, contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 11

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.diablosymphony.org/events/family-concert-joy-of-the-symphony/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=walnut+creek-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Walnut Creek
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lesher Center for the Arts
- **lat**: 37.900858514662
- **long**: -122.06345642239
- **full address**: Lesher Center for the Arts, 1641 Locust St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596-4118, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Diablo Symphony Orchestra (https://allevents.in/org/diablo-symphony-orchestra/20636236)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lesher Center for the Arts, 1641 Locust St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596-4118, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Diablo Symphony Orchestra
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, music, concerts, art, contests
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Family Concert: Joy of the Symphony ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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