Article: PROF. SASSMANNSHAUS' OPUS HIS YOUNG MUSICIANS LEARN PERFORMING AND TOURING EARLY.(LIVING)

Byline: Mary Ellyn Hutton Post music writer

''He understands kids,'' says Jessica Park, 12, of Villa Hills, Ky.

''He lets you do your own thing,'' adds Jill Fratianne, 14, of Montgomery.

They were speaking of Kurt Sassmannshaus, founder and director of the Starling Chamber Orchestra, centerpiece of the Starling Preparatory String Project at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Miss Park, who began taking violin lessons with Sassmannshaus when she was 7, will perform the Meditation from Massenet's ''Thais'' with the Starling Chamber Orchestra at 7 p.m. Sunday in Jarson-Kaplan Theater at the Aronoff Center for ...

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