Santa Monica Daily Press, 8-9 May 2004, p. 6
Music with a colorful bent
"Close to 1,600 third-and-fourth-grade students from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District were treated to a special concert by the Santa Monica Symphony last month at the Civic Auditorium.
"Allen Robert Gross, conductor and music director, conducted the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra in A Colorful Symphony with narration by David Avshalomov. The orchestra also played the very lively Farandole from Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2.
"A Colorful Symphony by acclaimed Latino American composer Robert Xavier Rodrigues, is based on the children's book The Phantom Tollbooth, in which a little boy enters a magical world of marvelous adventures, including an encounter with Maestro Chroma, whose symphony orchestra plays the colors into the world.
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{Didn't Mordechai Richler write The Phantom Tollbooth? And is it any coincidence that his artist ex-wife did the Body on the Lawn sculpture on Hollister?} {Didn't Macdonald-Wright pioneer the Synchromist modern art movement?}