NSO Music for Young Audiences: Beauty and the Beat

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Hello, Teachers and Grownups! Welcome to the NSO’s Music for Young Audiences Concert, designed to introduce children in pre-kindergarten through grade 2 to the wonders of music and musical instruments of the orchestra. Here are a few ways you can help your young concertgoers get the most out of their experience.

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Help young concertgoers read and understand this Cuesheet.

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Visit the Musical Instrument “Petting Zoo” in the Hall of States, where starting one hour before the performance, children can enjoy hands-on fun with instruments.

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Take a quick virtual tour of the Family Theater: kennedy-center.org/Pages/VirtualTour/Familytheater

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Discover lots more about orchestras, classical music, and the tools composers use in our Field Guide to the Orchestra: bit.ly/NSOGirlPower

Cuesheet Performance Guide

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NSO Music for Young Audiences

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elp young concertgoers make and play their own string and percussion instruments. H To make a string instrument, use a small container without a lid (for the instrument’s body) and two or three rubber bands (the “strings”). Stretch the rubber bands around the container and across the open side. Have kids pluck the strings and notice how the bands vibrate and change sounds.

Here are a few quick percussion instruments to make: an upside-down soup pot or coffee can for a drum, a lidded plastic bottle filled with dried rice or beans for maracas, or small bells tied through punched-out holes on paper plates for a tambourine. n

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ncourage and help children to listen again to recordings of E any musical pieces they enjoyed and notice how the music— especially the beauty and the beat—sounds with more or different instruments. lease come back and join us at these upcoming NSO Family P Concerts performed by the full NSO:

The Concert Program “Freda” by Kenny Baker “Aragonaise” from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet “Oblivion” by Astor Piazzolla

February 16, 2020 Girl Power! Celebrating Women in Music

“The Typewriter” by Leroy Anderson

April 19, 2020 Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (a Symphonic Spectacular)

No. 7 Aromatique by Benjamin Davies

Humoresque by Antonín Dvor̆ák

David M. Rubenstein Chairman

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.

Deborah F. Rutter

NSO Music for Young Audiences are made possible in part by the generous support of Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather.

Jordan LaSalle

Major support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by David M. Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program.

Gianandrea Noseda

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.

President

Interim Senior Vice President Education Music Director National Symphony Orchestra

© 2020 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Performed by NSO musicians: Marissa Regni, NSO Principal Second Violinist and Eric Shin, Principal Percussionist Presenting Sponsor of Performances for Young Audiences

David M. Rubenstein is the Presenting Underwriter of the NSO.


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