Larkin Sanders is a Branson native who has just completed her Doctor of Music degree in clarinet performance from Florida State University. She is also a noted composer and arranger. And she's the founder, Executive and Artistic Director, and resident clarinetist, of the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra, a non-profit organization that presents a FREE two-week concert series of classical music in the Branson every June. It's now in it's fifth season, and Larkin says she was inspired to create the Festival while still in graduate school at Michigan State University. "I had a very close friend named Claire, who started a similar festival in her hometown in rural Wisconsin. She invited me to attend as the clarinetist and resident composer. And I was so inspired by her product and by what she was doing. And I realized that a similar thing could function in Branson--I also believed I could take it to the next level, that the town could support a whole orchestra festival. That's how the idea
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