TINY TOTS SCIENCE OF SOUND
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Children are welcome to move during the program. Feel free to let little ones get up, dance, and participate in the interactive moments. Please stay off any staging and remain in your area. Adults are expected to remain seated throughout the program unless there is an emergency. Have any questions or concerns? Find a volunteer or staff member in a Tiny Tots or Inside the Orchestra shirt and we'll be happy to help!
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IN-PERSON
Want to join us again? We still have two more concert series to go this year! Music of the World June 12th and 18th Explore music from countries and cultures around the world. Featuring special guest dancers, singers, and musicians, you'll get to tour the musical globe. Listen to music from Spain, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago and beyond.
Meet the Instruments August 6th-14th - Outdoor Performances Join us for fun performances that will dive deep into the instruments of the orchestra (and then some)! Play along with the orchestra as you become percussionists, hear a new take on a classic children's song, and more. You've never heard the instruments like this before!
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VIRTUAL
And you can bring the Tiny Tots fun home with you. You'll receive:
7 sets of interactive performance videos
7 musical activity books for offline fun
7 sets of theme-based online musical games and activities
Online access for a year!
Virtual Tiny Tots packages make great birthday presents! Purchase at the merchandise table today for a 15% off attendee discount and take your activity books home with you today.
CONDUCTOR Dan Leavitt
Dan has a Master of Arts in Music from the University of Denver. He has been conductor of Tiny Tots for 3 years and arranges many of the pieces we play. He has written over 500 arrangements that are played all over the world. Dan has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder, Metropolitan State University, Colorado Christian University and Cherry Creek High School. He is currently the conductor of the Mercury Ensemble and the Denver Municipal Jazz Big Band. He has conducted the Colorado Ballet, Colorado Youth Symphony and the Denver Municipal Band. Dan has performed with numerous artists and ensembles such as Andrea Bocelli, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, Ray Charles, John Denver, Bob Hope, The Canadian Brass, The Irish Tenors, Three Mo' Divas, Mannheim Steam Roller, Aaron Copland, The Denver Brass, Denver Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Chamber Players, Central City Opera, and The Colorado Symphony. He has performed four times for Presidents of the US. He has recorded with the Colorado Symphony, The Boulder Brass, Rare Silk, and can be heard on Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman by Joan Tower. He has a passion for conducting, performing, composing, and music education.
TEACHING ARTIST
Emily Doherty, Denver Center for the Performing Arts Emily Doherty is a Teaching Artist and the Theatre for Young Audiences Program Manager at Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She specializes in teaching music and early childhood education within theatrical explorations. She is dedicated to building inclusive and accessible experiences in and out of the classroom and shows in our theatres. She has worked with Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Education Department in a teaching capacity since the summer of 2018 and has worked with Denver Center Theatre Company as a Production Assistant for Corduroy, and as a Young Performer’s Supervisor for Anna Karenina. Prior to living in Denver, Emily was a teacher and administrative assistant at the Michigan State University Community Music School while earning her Bachelor’s degree and Teaching Credential in Music Education at Michigan State University. She has worked as a Residential Technician supporting young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Emily was previously the Activities Coordinator for the Mark T. Starr Center facilitating engagement for adult clients with developmental disabilities.
MUSICIANS
VIOLIN
CELLO
Byron Hitchcock Michael Brooks Beth Greenberg Annamaria Karacson Takanori Sugishita Désirée Suàrez Ward Kathy Thayer Gyongyi Petheo Lionel Young Tori Woodrow
VIOLA Sarah Richardson James Shaw Lora Stevens
Wayne Templeman Jennifer Fouse Anna Leavitt
TRUMPET
Derek McDonald Alex Szasz Patrick Tillery
BASS
HORN
FLUTE
Devon Park Sue McCullough Ron Torp Sarah Ford
Mike Fitzmaurice Ron Bland Andy Holmes Valerie Johnson
OBOE Kathryn Simpson
CLARINET
TROMBONE Jeff Craig
TUBA
Mary Jungerman
Emanuel Jester
BASSOON
PERCUSSION
Deborah Torp JJ Sechen
Peter Cooper
REPERTOIRE To be selected from:
Huapango Serenade for Strings, Movement 2 Egmont Overture NOLA If You're Happy and You Know It The Blue Danube Waltz Flute Concertino De Colores The Roarer March It Don't Mean A Thing William Tell Overture, Finale
José Pablo Moncayo Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ludwig van Beethoven Felix Arndt Johann Strauss II Cécile Chaminade Horace Weston Duke Ellington Gioachino Rossini
All music arranged by Dan Leavitt
PROGRAM NOTES
The final bolded sentence in each section indicates the interactive learning element for each piece during the program. HUAPANGO - JOSÉ PABLO MONCAYO
Moncayo was a percussionist and conductor who only wrote a small number of compositions. Huapango is his most famous composition. A huapango is a type of Mexican dance and Moncayo used three different traditional dances in his composition and to inspire his own original melodies in the piece. Listen to all the sounds the orchestra can make.
SERENADE FOR STRINGS - PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky was a Russian Romantic composer who wrote many famous symphonies, concerti, and ballets. This piece was inspired by Mozart, his idol. The second movement is a waltz, which means it has three beats per measure. Listen to the string family.
EGMONT OVERTURE - LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven was asked to write incidental music for a German play called Egmont. Incidental music is any music that's used in the background of a movie or play to support the plot. Egmont Overture is the first piece of music and sets the scene for the dramatic play to come. Listen to the woodwind and brass families. Vibrate your body when the music is playing and freeze when it's not.
NOLA - FELIX ARNDT
Arndt was an American pianist and composer who wrote popular music in the early 1900s. He wrote Nola for his wife as an engagement gift. It is his most famous piece and the first piece considered part of the "novelty piano" genre of music - simple piano music that was often put onto piano rolls that were played in bars and restaurants. Listen to the xylophone from the percussion family.
IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT
This is a popular children's song and its origins are unknown though it has been widely recorded and performed since about 1960. Sing along with the orchestra.
FLUTE CONCERTINO - CÉCILE CHAMINADE
Chaminade was a French composer, the first woman composer to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur. She is best-known for this flute concerto. It was commissioned by the Paris Conservatoire for students to learn as a graduation piece and has remained one of the most important flute concertos. Listen to the difference between high and low sounds.
DE COLORES
De Colores is a traditional Spanish-language folk song. It is most associated with Mexican folklore and it's believed to have been sung in the Americas since 1600, though some of the melodies likely started in Spain even earlier than that. The lyrics express the bright colors all around us in nature. Use your bodies to show what sound waves look like.
THE ROARER MARCH - HORACE WESTON
Horace Weston is known as one of the best banjo players of all time. He was born in Connecticut in 1825, which meant that he was born free during a time when African Americans were still enslaved around much of the country. He travelled around the world playing banjo. He composed only a few pieces of music which are not commonly performed. In fact, this might be the first time The Roarer March has been arranged and performed by an orchestra since his death. Use your bodies to show the different dynamics in the music.
IT DON'T MEAN A THING - DUKE ELLINGTON
Composed by Duke Ellington, this piece is now accepted as a legendary jazz standard. Ellington and his jazz orchestra performed it regularly during intermissions in Chicago and recorded it many times. Listen to instruments around the orchestra use mutes to change their sounds.
WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE - GIOACHINO ROSSINI
The Overture to the opera William Tell is often the backdrop for movie scenes, TV shows, and commercials that include portrayals of the American West, though Rossini's opera William Tell is not about that at all. You won't believe your eyes and ears as we use DIY instruments and toys to perform the Finale section of this piece.
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