For Teachers and Parents
A Good Audience… stays seated, doesn’t eat, listens, and claps. Have fun!
Dear Grownups: Welcome to the NSO’s Music for Young Audiences Concert, designed to introduce children in pre-kindergarten through grade 2 to orchestra music and instruments. Please help your young concert-goers read and understand the information in this Cuesheet. The information and activity ideas below are designed to help you further the children’s concert experience.
The Concert Program Before or after the concert, you may want the children to listen to some or all of these musical selections from the concert repertoire. Point out that some of the music will sound different at the concert because the musicians will adapt it for their instruments and use excerpts rather than full pieces. Ask children whether they can recognize the music when they hear it the second time. The METRONONE “Non Pui Andrai” from The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The DONUT “Habañera” from Carmen by Georges Bizet The DRAWINGS Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman” (“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The MYSTERY BOX Turkish March, III from Piano Sonata No. 11 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The SHOW-OFFS From Grand Duo Concertant by Giovanni Bottesini The CHICKENS from The Barber of Seville Overture by Gioachino Rossini The END from The William Tell Overture Gioachino Rossini
All music transcribed and arranged by Heather LeDoux Green and Paul DeNola. Drawings by Paul DeNola.
More Fun With Music
Wait! There’s More! Musical Instrument “Petting Zoo” Before the concert, enjoy hands-on fun with the instruments that the musicians will play on stage in the Hall of States. A project of the Women’s Committee for the NSO.
Deborah F. Rutter President
Music for Young Audiences
Mario R. Rossero
Senior Vice President Education
Additional support for NSO Music for Young Audiences is provided by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation; the Kimsey Endowment; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; and the U.S. Department of Education.
“Preview” the Concert Hall We hope you have so much fun at the concert that you’ll come back soon to hear a performance of the full National Symphony Orchestra—that’s 100 musicians! When they all play together, they perform on the big stage in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Get a sneak peek at the Hall (and even go backstage) in the playful online tour led by former NSO Associate Conductor Emil de Cou at: artsedge.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/VideoStories/ welcome-to-the-kennedy-center/concert-hall
Upcoming Family Concerts
April 29, 2018—Bernstein! Inside the Music
Go with the Flow
Vary It
As you listen to the music during the concert, imagine how you would move to each piece. Would you dance? Gallop? Skip? Move back and forth? Pretend to fly? Or something else? Think about what movements match the music and rhythms.
Different versions of the same song, like “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” are called variations. Take a song you know, and try creating a variation for it—like changing the words or doing parts of it faster or slower. Share it with friends and see whether they recognize it.
The NSO also presents full orchestra Young People’s Concerts for school groups in the Concert Hall each season during the school day for grades 3 through 6.
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Chairman
Music Director National Symphony Orchestra
Here are some post-performance activities for children:
Take a small container without a lid (this will be your instrument’s body) and two or three rubber bands (these will be your “strings”). Stretch the rubber bands around the container and across the open side (with help from a grownup). Now pluck the strings with your fingers. Notice how the bands vibrate. This is what making music looks and sounds like. Discuss ways to change the sounds with your friends.
David M. Rubenstein
Gianandrea Noseda
Please build on your concert experience by joining us at the next National Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, performed by the full NSO::
Make Your Own String Instrument
CUESHEET PERFORMANCE GUIDE
Major support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by David M. Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program. Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. The contents of this Cuesheet have been developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education. You should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. © 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
For more about NSO education programs, see kennedy-center.org/nso/nsoed
Orchestra Interactive Enjoy an interactive exploration of orchestras, their instruments, and their music at the Perfect Pitch Web site at: artsedge.kennedy-center.org/perfectpitch
EXPLORE MORE!
Two musicians. Two string instruments.
No words, but lots of music…and maybe a playful disagreement or two. Get ready for plenty of great music and madcap musical fun!
Go to KC Connections on ARTSEDGE artsedge.kennedy-center.org/students/kc-connections
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Performed by NSO Musicians Paul DeNola, bass Heather LeDoux Green, violin
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