On a rainy October weekday, close to 8000 school children came to the La Porte Civic Auditorium to experience live symphonic music.  The treat that they found was a multimedia production that focused on music in their everyday lives. Maestro Philip Bauman worked with an animated penguin, the 2009 Hoosier Star adult winner, Kyrie Anderson and Ronald McDonald to help the orchestra educate and entertain the young audience. The La Porte County Symphony Orchestra presented a variety of symphonic works included an opportunity for a sing along and audience participation segments such as the creation of a pretend rainstorm by the entire crowd.

The team responsible for executing this program, V. Michael Drayton and Maestro Philip Bauman is seen below agreeing that it was worth the work. Michael Drayton is a long time board member of the orchestra. This year marks his twenty-first year of being the person responsible in filling the seats for three consecutive concerts in a day. Maestro Bauman coordinates all of the production aspects as music director/conductor for the orchestra.