Chancellor Haile T. Debas joined the UCSF Orchestra on Saturday for its performance of Serge Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Debas provided narration for the special children's concert, which raised funds for the orchestra and the UCSF Child Care Center. Mark Swanson, who currently serves on the orchestra conducting staff of the San Francisco Conservatory where he directs the Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, was guest conductor.

Scores of adults and children packed into Millberry Gymnasium to hear the orchestra perform two pieces, Peter and the Wolf and Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. Empact! and the UCSF Child Care Study Center sponsored the event.

The 60-member orchestra, founded in 1989, is made up of accomplished student, faculty, staff and community musicians, who rehearse weekly and perform several concerts a year.

See previous Daybreak stories about the orchestra:

The Sounds of UCSF Music

Viola! -- Orchestra Section a Good Mix

1st appeared 3/03/98

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