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Cuesheet

For Teachers and Parents

Performance Guide

Dear Grownups: Welcome to the Concert for Young Audiences in the REACH, designed to introduce children to a variety of musical genres. 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 to have the children 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. Ask children to see whether they can recognize the music when they hear it the second time.

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stays seated, stays quiet, doesn’t eat, listens, and claps. Have fun!

Menuetto from Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wait! There’s More!

Sarabande in G minor by Carl Böhm Duo for clarinet and bassoon in C major, movement 1, by Ludwig van Beethoven (adapted for violin and viola) String Duo No. 1 in G major for violin and viola, K. 423, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Minuet from String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5, by Luigi Boccherini “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” by Duke Ellington “Orange Blossom Special” by Ervin Rouse and arranged by Calvin Custer Minuet No. 3 in G major by Johann Sebastian Bach String Trio in E-flat major, second menuetto, Op. 3, by Ludwig van Beethoven “Paragon Rag” by Scott Joplin Polka, Op. 123, by Charles Dancla

Upcoming Family Events Please build on your Concerts for Young Audiences in the REACH experience by joining us at the next National Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, performed by the full NSO, or the next NSO Music for Young Audiences program, performed by small ensembles: Sunday, October 20, 2019 NSO Family Concert: Halloween Spooktacular

“Pop Goes the Weasel”

More Fun With Music

Saturday, November 23, 2019 NSO Music for Young Audiences: Peter and Friends

Here are some post-performance activities for children:

Presto Chango! After the performance, choose a song you know, like “London Bridge Is Falling Down.” Try singing it using some of the ideas you learned about like changing the tempo (singing it fast and then slow) or dynamics (singing it loud and then soft). Start as a duo and then add friends, creating a trio and quartet.

Saturday, January 18, 2020 NSO Music for Young Audiences: Beauty and the Beat

Sunday, February 16, 2020 NSO Family Concert: Girl Power! Celebrating Women in Music Sunday, April 19, 2020 NSO Family Concert: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (a Symphonic Spectacular)

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. For more about the Kennedy Center’s music education and young audience programs, see kennedy-center.org/education

Make Your Own String Instrument 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. 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. 5

David M. Rubenstein Chairman

Additional support for Presto! The Case of the Vanishing Violin is provided by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation; the Kimsey Endowment; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; and the U.S. Department of Education.

Deborah F. Rutter

Funding for Access and Accommodation Programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

President

Mario R. Rossero

Senior Vice President Education

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. 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. © 2019 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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