Earlier
this month, all of the Taylor School District fourth graders attended the
Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra's Koncert for Kids at the Prechter Center for
Performing Arts on the WCCCD campus. The Philharmonic presents 45-minute
"Koncerts for Kids" for fourth grade students.
The
featured piece is Andre Myers' work, Paddle to the Sea, based on the fourth-grade
curriculum's literature and social studies book by H.C. Holling and
commissioned by the Philharmonic in 2004 specifically for these performances.
This
piece is a twelve- minute narrated work with text taken from the book. The
musical program is designed to engage a younger audience. At the concert
students will learn about different instrument families, composers, the
composition process, and conducting (including a "conduct along").
Also,
every year our third-grade classes receive a visit from the Philharmonic in the
schools to demonstrate orchestra instruments. The schools seek to expand the
program for composing with our fifth graders.
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