In partnership with area libraries, Stories with Music promotes literacy among young children and students through the powerful connection of music and literature. OSFL musicians present a featured storybook set to music, along with other musical selections.
Three groups of OSFL musicians will be performing at libraries throughout Chemung, Steuben, Schuyler, and Tioga, NY counties in July and August 2025.
2025 Stories with Music
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Little Red Riding Hood
Storied Winds Lesley McClelland, oboe David Resig, bassoon Claire McKenney, horn |
Animal Ditties
Brass Quintet Lindsey Burroughs, trumpet Larry Burroughs, trumpet Claire McKenney, horn Duane Smith, trombone Keith Alcius, tuba |
The Little Prince
OSFL String Group Rosanna Moore, harp Lia Kettlecamp, violin |
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Storied Winds
July 2 at 10:30AM, Waverly Free Library July 2 at 12:30PM, Cady Library July 23 at 10AM, Watkins Glen Public Library July 23 at 1PM, Southeast Steuben County Library July 24 at 10AM, Addison Public Library July 24 at 12PM, Dormann Library July 24 at 2PM, Fred & Harriet Taylor Memorial Library July 25 at 10AM, Coburn Library July 30 at 11AM, Steele Memorial Library August 13 at 10:30AM, Berkshire Community Hall August 13 at 1:30PM, Horseheads Free Library August 13 at 3PM, Big Flats Library August 15 at 11AM, Apalachin Public Library |
Brass Quintet
July 3 at 10AM, Addison Public Library July 3 at 12PM, Dormann Library July 3 at 2PM, Fred & Harriet Taylor Memorial Library July 21 at 1PM, Horseheads Free Library July 21 at 3PM, Big Flats Library July 22 at 3PM, West Elmira Library July 22 at 5:30PM, Coburn Free Library July 28 at 10:30AM, Southeast Steuben County Library July 28 at 2PM, Steele Memorial Library July 29 at 10:30AM, Candor Fire Hall July 29 at 12:30PM, Village of Waverly Hall July 31 at 10:30AM, Spencer Library July 31 at 1PM, Cady Library |
String Group
July 17 at 2:30PM, West Elmira Library July 17 at 4PM, Horseheads Free Library |
* Some library concerts will be outdoors or at a larger facility.
Programs and schedules subject to change.
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Sponsors for Stories with Music (in partnership with the local libraries)
● New York State Council on the Arts’s Decentralization Program, administered regionally by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, in partnership with the Tioga County Library System
● Floyd "Vic" Hooker Fund at the Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers
● Upstate Theater Coalition for a Fairgame
● Bobbie and John G. Ullman Family Foundation
● Schuyler County Fund of the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes
● Douglas G Anderson - Leigh R Evans Foundation
● Johnson-Schmidt & Associates, Architects
● The kind generosity of individual donors
● New York State Council on the Arts’s Decentralization Program, administered regionally by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, in partnership with the Tioga County Library System
● Floyd "Vic" Hooker Fund at the Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers
● Upstate Theater Coalition for a Fairgame
● Bobbie and John G. Ullman Family Foundation
● Schuyler County Fund of the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes
● Douglas G Anderson - Leigh R Evans Foundation
● Johnson-Schmidt & Associates, Architects
● The kind generosity of individual donors
Photos from Stories with Music in summer 2024
Photos from Stories with Music in summer 2023
Photos from Stories with Music in summer 2022
Previous Programs
Neverland performed by the OSFL Brass Quintet in summer 2024
Scottish Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends performed by the OSFL String Duo in summer 2024
The Three Billy Goats Gruff performed by Storied Winds in summer 2024
Bremen Town Musicians composed by Stanley Freidman (b. 1951) performed by the OSFL Woodwind Quintet in summer 2023
The Race (The Tortoise & the Hare) composed by Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947) performed by the OSFL Brass Quintet in summer 2023
The Wonderland Suite (Alice in Wonderland) composed by Esther Swift (b. 1988) performed by the OSFL Harp & Cello Duo in summer 2023
Scottish Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends performed by the OSFL String Duo in summer 2024
The Three Billy Goats Gruff performed by Storied Winds in summer 2024
Bremen Town Musicians composed by Stanley Freidman (b. 1951) performed by the OSFL Woodwind Quintet in summer 2023
The Race (The Tortoise & the Hare) composed by Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947) performed by the OSFL Brass Quintet in summer 2023
The Wonderland Suite (Alice in Wonderland) composed by Esther Swift (b. 1988) performed by the OSFL Harp & Cello Duo in summer 2023
In the Hall of the Mountain King composed by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) performed by the Edgewood Piano Trio in summer 2022
Hansel and Gretel composed by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) performed by the OSFL Woodwind Quintet in summer 2022
Tales of the Deep from The Sunken Forest (premiered in 2021) composed by Eira Lynn Jones, performed by Rosanna Moore in summer 2022
Ferdinand the BullPresented 2021 by the OSFL String Quartet, narrated by OSFL cellist Gilbert Antoine
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Tubby the Tuba
Presented 2020 by the OSFL Woodwind Quintet |
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The Frog Prince
Presented Summer 2019 by the Edgewood Piano Trio |
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Peter and the Wolf
Presented Summer 2019 by the OSFL Woodwind Quintet 
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