Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Youth Education Concerts
Youth Education Concerts
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
9:15 am, 11:00 am & 1:00 pm - Capitol Theater, Overture Center for the Arts
How a Composer Thinks will teach students how to think like a composer as they learn about the four basic elements that composers use to create music: rhythm, melody, expression and form! Each piece in the program will explore one of these compositional elements and will culminate in a spectacular visual performance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. These concerts will also feature a performance by one of the winners of the WCO’s 2008 Young Artist Concerto Competition.
Program
Haydn: Symphony No. 94, II. Andante
De Falla: Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, I. Allegro con brio
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 ‘New World,’ II. Largo
Mussorgsky: Selections from Pictures at an Exhibition
Performances last approximately 45 minutes. Tickets are $4 for students and teachers (complimentary for chaperones). Participating schools receive a listening CD, curriculum packet, and two complimentary pre-concert in-school visits from WCO musicians.
A limited number of complimentary tickets and transportation funding are also available to Madison Public Schools based on each school’s free and reduced school lunch program rate.
For more information, please contact Michael at the WCO office at 608-257-0638 or email michaelallen@wcoconcerts.org
Sponsored by: American Girl’s Fund for Children
Additional support provided by:
Arthur W. Strelow Charitable Trust
Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission
