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Rusty and Pam Jones, along with their daughters Hallie and Haydn, recently accompanied members and supporters of the Tehachapi Community Orchestra on a grand tour of Mozart’s Europe. Their itinerary included stops at Frankfort, Prague, Lenz, Salzburg, and Vienna.

Haydn and Hallie are still flying high from the excitement of their first visit to the Continent, a visit memorialized in the accompanying photos and dozens more like them. In the first photo, the girls are standing with a mime at the rear entrance to Vienna’s Spanish Riding School. The mime, dressed as Mozart, charmed the girls without speaking and then proceeded to whistle, in perfect pitch, the entire first movement of the composer’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik.”

The second photo was taken at the Marionette Museum of the Hohensalzburg Fortress. The girls’ heads are sticking through a board depicting Papagena and Papageno, from Mozart’s opera, “Don Giovanni.”

The tour, which brought so much musical joy and knowledge to the Joneses and the other participants, was organized as a benefit for the all-volunteer Tehachapi Community Orchestra. Thanks to this event and to all our regular supporters, the Orchestra will commence its ninth season of free classical music on Sunday, November 5th, at 4:00 pm, at Country Oaks Baptist Church. The concert will feature pianist Shun-Lin (“Sam”) Chou in a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major and will take advantage of the Church’s Yamaha concert grand piano.

Please join us for the opening of our season. For further information, contact Concertmaster Gayel Pitchford at 821-7511.