Educational and Engaging Musical Experiences for
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. Aaron Copland
Grand Canyon. Photo by Roger Bolsius.
YOUTH SERIES
Designed for grades 3 through 8, the acclaimed MSO Youth Series uses orchestral masterworks to inspire students, promote active listening, and encourage critical thinking. Concerts align with state and national standards for music education, and connect to multiple subjects and disciplines. Make the most of your Youth Series field trip day. Add a Milwaukee Art Museum tour to complement these performances. Separate fees apply. Call 414.224.3842 for information and to schedule your tour.
Music of the Earth October 11 + 12, 2017
10:30 am & 12:00 pm
Yaniv Dinur, conductor Debussy: “From Dawn to Midday on the Sea” from La Mer Wagner: “Entry of the Gods” from Das Rheingold Britten: “Moonlight” from Four Sea Interludes Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Vivaldi: “Fall” from The Four Seasons Stravinsky: “Dance of the Chosen One” from Rite of Spring Grofé: “Cloudburst” from Grand Canyon Suite Our planet and Mother Nature have endlessly captivated composers and artists of all kinds, reflecting a dynamic relationship between humans and the environment. Join the Milwaukee Symphony for Grofé’s pictorial Grand Canyon Suite, the primitive Rite of Spring and more. From morning sunrises to moonlit waves, explore how composers transform their outdoor inspiration into music.
Finding the American Voice February 6 + 7, 2018
10:30 am & 12:00 pm
Yaniv Dinur, conductor Bernstein: Overture to Candide Copland: “Hoe Down” from Rodeo Gershwin: “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess Emily Cooley: Green Go With Me John Williams: March from Raiders of the Lost Ark A famous conductor, composer, musician, and educator, Leonard Bernstein was the leading American musical voice of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he championed American symphonic music and young talented musicians. We celebrate his 100th birthday with a concert filled with music that captures the American spirit, including music by Bernstein himself. Featuring the 2017 Wisconsin Youth Piano Competition winner.
“Link Up: The Orchestra Rocks” concert in Uihlein Hall. Photo by Jonathan Kirn.
The Orchestra Moves March 21, 2018 March 22, 2018
10:30 am & 12:00 pm 10:30 am
Yaniv Dinur, conductor Cabaniss: Come to Play Offenbach: Can-Can Strauss, Jr.: The Blue Danube Mendelssohn: “Nocturne” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Bizet: “Toreador” from Carmen Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, first movement Cabaniss: Away I Fly Filho: Cidade Maravilhosa The Milwaukee Symphony partners 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 orchestral 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!
Thank you for the amazing performance. My favorite songs were “Come to Play” and “The Firebird”. I play the cello and maybe I will be in the symphony someday. I loved your performance so thank you again! Gillian, 6th grade student, Wauwatosa
MUSIC FOR ME!
A special program that is “just right” for the MSO’s youngest listeners. Designed for students in K4 through second grade, these concerts introduce them to the symphony orchestra and the expressive capabilities of music.
Musical Opposites November 14, 2017 November 15, 2017
10:00 am & 11:30 am 10:00 am
Yaniv Dinur, conductor Elgar: “Fairies and Giants” from The Wand of Youth Offenbach: Can-Can Saint-Saëns: “Tortoises” from Carnival of the Animals Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, third movement Tchaikovsky: “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from The Nutcracker Prokofiev: “Montagues and Capulets” from Romeo and Juliet Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, third movement Djupstrom: The Seahorse and the Crab With so many instruments and musicians in the Milwaukee Symphony, the orchestra can create a whole array of different sounds. Whether high or low, fast or slow, contrasts in music rouse the imagination and peak the listeners’ interest. To finish, audiences will hear how opposites help to tell Djupstrom’s The Seahorse and the Crab, an underwater adaptation of The Tortoise and the Hare.
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul’s moods. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
6 Guest high school choirs perform with the MSO in Uihlein Hall. Photo by Jonathan Kirn.
TEEN CONCERT
Nationally recognized educator and conductor Randal Swiggum leads the MSO’s annual Teen Choral Partners project. Swiggum employs his expertise in Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance to curate the concert experience for middle and high school audiences. Each student receives his or her own Teen Guide created for this concert and prepared by the conductor.
Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms February 14, 2018
10:30 am
Featuring guest choruses from Wisconsin high schools Randal Swiggum, conductor Bernstein: Chichester Psalms “Lenny seemed hopelessly fated for success”, said former New York Times drama critic Harold Clurman of Leonard Bernstein. In celebration of this versatile and multifaceted musician’s centenary, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will perform his wonderfully diverse Chichester Psalms with the 2018 Teen Choral Partners.
Leonard Bernstein making annotations to musical score, 1955
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another ... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. Leonard Bernstein
My students love going every year. It is very much a highlight for them. Curt Hart, Fairview School, Milwaukee
More About Youth and Music for Me! Make your experience even more meaningful. Request a Docent! In conjunction with Forte, the MSO’s Volunteer League, the MSO offers free docent visits leading up to the Youth and Music for Me! concerts. Our docents are passionate about the orchestra, and trained by the region’s finest music educators. Docents arrange a time to visit your school, bringing fun activities and lessons corresponding to the performance. For more information, email edu@mso.org.
Uihlein Hall Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI Single Concert 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.
Educational Materials MSO Teacher Resource Guides provide background information about the music and composers, and lesson plans in a full-color, digital format. Lesson plans support Common Core and Wisconsin State Standards in music, English language arts, and other subject areas. 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 materials.
Please direct all inquiries to: Education Department Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 1101 North Market Street, Suite 100 Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414.226.7886 Fax: 414.291.7610 Email: edu@mso.org
Educators’ Discount Get 50% off regular subscription prices for any 17.18 Classics Series, including Beethoven’s Ninth, Strauss’ Don Juan, Mahler and more! Call Luther Gray at 414.226.7800 or email grayl@mso.org today.
Concerts for Schools is funded by the Herzfeld Foundation and the ENW and Irene Edelstein Memorial Funds as administered by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. All MSO education programs are supported in part by an endowment from the Hearst Foundations, and grants from the United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF), the Koeppen-Gerlach Foundation, 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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