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Learning about music and instruments
Orchestra Iowa woodwind ensemble teaches, entertains at Iowa City Public Library

Apr. 14, 2022 2:15 pm, Updated: Apr. 14, 2022 3:24 pm
Dan Malloy, a French horn player with Orchestra Iowa, plays “Teddy Bear Picnic” with a woodwind quintet on Thursday at the Iowa City Public Library. The Pied Piper event exposes youngsters to orchestral music and musical instruments. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Jan Trana (right) of Iowa City leads her daughters, Hattie (left), 4, and Evy, 6, through the moves for the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” crawling up the waterspout during an Orchestra Iowa program Thursday at the Iowa CIty Public Library. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Johanna Bader, 4, watches Christine Bellomy play a clarinet Thursday during an Orchestra Iowa Pied Piper event at the Iowa City Public Library. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Clarinetist Christine Bellomy (right) talks about a children’s song the Orchestra Iowa woodwind quintet will play at the Thursday Pied Piper event at the Iowa City Public Library. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Susan Wu of Iowa City hugs her daughter, Audrey Freedman, 3, as they listen to an Orchestra Iowa woodwind quintet perform the “Teddy Bear Picnic” on Thursday at the Iowa City Public Library. The Pied Piper event, and information about different musical instruments, drew a crowd of both young and old listeners. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)