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FRONTDOORS MAGAZINE | 49 NEXT DOORS BY TOM EVANS Not the Same Old Song & Dance Collaboration brings young dancers and musicians together I t’s been said that the best things come in twos. Here’s a great example of that. Phoenix is fortunate to have a couple of great performing arts organizations that bring traditional and classical musical genres to children — the Phoenix Youth Symphony Orchestras and The School of Ballet Arizona. But it wasn’t until a chance meeting in 2019 that the two ended up performing together. It started when Maria Simonetti, school director of School of Ballet Arizona, and Matthew Kasper, artistic and general director of Phoenix Youth Symphony Orchestras, ran into each other by chance at a Phoenix Symphony rehearsal, for which Kasper was a conductor. “It was kind of a miracle in that he was traveling and was not supposed to conduct that day,” Simonetti said. “But he ran this rehearsal, and I thought he was a good Photo by Tzu Chia Huang Photo by Tzu Chia Huang