1415 MSO Concerts for Schools

Youth Series • Music for Me! • Teen Series Educational and engaging musical experiences for young people

Yo u t h S e r i e s

The Composer is Dead! September 23 + 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 American Stories January 27 + February 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 L i n k U p

The Orchestra Moves April 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Music for Me!

Fairytale Favorites April 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 T e e n C o n c e r t

Vivaldi Gloria February 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 More information

About the Youth and Music for Me! Series . . . . . . . . . . 8 Ticket Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Partnership Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Yo u t h S e r i e s Designed for students grades 3 through 8, these programs — approximately 45 minutes in length — make connections with the following areas of study:

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 Social Studies ⚗ Science

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The Composer is Dead!

September 23–24, 2014

10:30 am & 12:00 pm | Uihlein Hall Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Rick Pendzich, actor Excerpts from

Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain Grieg: Holberg Suite Brahms: Second Serenade Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 Bernstein: “Mambo” from West Side Story The Composer is Dead by Nathaniel Stookey, with text by Lemony Snicket There’s dreadful news from the concert hall — the composer is dead! In this perplexing murder mystery, everyone seems to have a motive, everyone

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Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, your students will be introduced to each member of the orchestra…as the inspector interrogates the entire symphonic arrangement regarding their whereabouts at the time of the crime. One thing is for sure — nobody is leaving the concert hall until the mystery is solved!

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American Stories January 27 + February 3, 2015 10:30 am & 12:00 pm | Uihlein Hall Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

Key: Star-Spangled Banner Copland: “Hoe Down” from Rodeo Gershwin: An American in Paris Joplin: Treemonisha Overture Copland: Lincoln Portrait Behind great American music lie great American stories. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will be your storyteller for this concert, from the words of The Star-Spangled Banner, to Gershwin’s exciting An American in Paris, to the inspirational Lincoln Portrait.

This concert will feature the 2014 Stars of Tomorrow winner.

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The Orchestra Moves April 22, 2015

10:30 am & 12:00 pm | Uihlein Hall Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

Come to Play A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Nocturne The Marriage of Figaro Overture Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten The Can-Can The Blue Danube Toreador from Carmen Beethoven Symphony No. 5, mvt 1 Away I Fly Cidade Maravilhosa This is the second year that the Milwaukee Symphony will partner with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to bring the Link Up program to our community. Link Up pairs orchestras across the country with students in grades 3–5 at schools in their local communities to explore orchestra repertoire through a year-long hands-on music curriculum. Composers create musical movement using motifs, melodic direction, steps and leaps, dynamics, and orchestration. Through the Link Up repertoire, hands-on activities, and a culminating performance, students will discover ways in which the orchestra moves!

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6 Guest high school choirs warm up prior to performance with the MSO in Uihlein Hall.

More About Youth and Music for Me! Concerts Want to make your experience even more meaningful?

Request a Docent!

In conjunction with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League, Forte, the MSO offers free docent visits leading up to the Youth and Music for Me! Concerts. Our docents are passionate about the orchestra, and have been trained by some of the region’s finest music educators. Docents will arrange a time to visit your school, bringing fun activities and lessons specially designed to correspond to the upcoming performance. For more information about the docent program, email edu@mso.org.

Concert Locations Uihlein Hall Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI The Historic Pabst Theater 144 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI

Ticket Prices Single Concert

Non-MPS

MPS

Uihlein Hall Seating includes Orchestra rows D – S, Box, Side Loge Pabst Theater Seating includes Orchestra and Mezzanine Circle

$7.00

$4.50

Basic

$6.00

$3.50

Premium

All programs subject to change.

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Other Information Chaperones One complimentary chaperone ticket will be offered for every 10 paid student tickets for all concerts.

Educational Materials MSO Teacher Resource Guides provide background information about the music and the composers, and lesson plans in a full-color, informative volume. The lesson plans will be specifically written to support Common Core and Wisconsin State Standards in music, English language arts, and other subject areas. In addition, an audio guide and/or access to the Naxos Digital Library will be provided for each concert. A $3 processing fee will be charged to help cover the cost of these materials.

Please direct all inquiries to: Education Department

Phone: 414.226.7886

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Fax:

414.291.7610

1101 North Market Street, Suite 100 Milwaukee, WI 53202

Email: edu@mso.org

Registration forms are available at mso.org

Concerts for Schools is funded by the Herzfeld Foundation, and the Irene Edelstein Memorial Fund as administered by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. All MSO education programs are supported in part by an endowment from the Hearst Foundations. The MSO is a member of the United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) and is supported by a direct contribution from the Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust. Concerts for Schools is also supported in part by grants from the Milwaukee Arts Board (MAB) and the Wisconsin Arts Board (WAB) with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

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