Through my hobby (geocaching)I know this professional singer from the LA area.She is in a quartet called Bethoven's Wig, which takes classical music and makes it attractive to small kids. Their signature song is "Bethoven's wig, is very big..." (Beethoven's Fifth) they throw in Dance of the Toreadors, etc. Someone who was going got sick and gave me the ticket. It was very enjoyable although the only time I saw the BPO was those field trips in elementary school. All the hyperactive rugrats were jumping about where the orchestra pit would be. You've heard some of her work - she is the singer in the intro on the remastered ST:TOS DVDs, was the singer in the Volkswagen commercial with ELO's 'Mr. Blue Sky" (she said Jeff Lyne was great to work with) , the scene in The Simpsons Movie where the birds are helping Marge in the cabin in Alaska, and had done jingles for Glee and lots of other things.
One Christmastime, the BPO was supposed to play at noon in the M&T building and it fell through that day. I was in grad school at Roswell Park and the moved a lot of the tables around, brought down a lot of patients and played in the cafeteria. We were supprised to hear them as we walked in there.The Christmas songs sound amazing when you hear them from 50 feet away played by professional musicians.