Musical Rainbow at Severance

Raise a juice box to the brave Robert Woolfrey. The Cleveland Orchestra musician will be marching into a room today filled with scores of squirmy 3- to 6-year-olds, for no better reason than to introduce them to the joys of The Cool Clarinet. Moreover, the Toronto native says he thinks it will be fun! “It’s just a half an hour,” he says cheerfully of the program he is debuting as part of the orchestra’s PNC Musical Rainbow series. “And besides, I’ll have a pianist and a narrator to help me.” On Woolfrey’s concise program: demonstrations, short solo selections, and a chance for the kids to sing along to familiar tunes. Woolfrey, who joined the Cleveland Orchestra in November 2008, has been playing the clarinet since he was in seventh grade, and says he’s delighted to share his passion with the small fry. “What I’m really looking forward to is the kids who have never heard a woodwind live before; that’s what I’m really excited about!” It all goes down today at 10 a.m. in Severance Hall’s intimate Reinberger Chamber Hall. Two encore performances are set for Saturday at 10 and 11 a.m. General admission is $7 by phone, online, or at the box office. Check out the website for details.