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INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS
ALOHA MUSIC: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE UKULELE
Join an Manhattan School of Music teaching artist for an exciting and interactive look at Hawaii’s quintessential musical instrument. Students discover the ukulele’s unique history through live musical examples and media-rich tools. An overview of the instrument’s fundamentals and technique gives students a handful of common chord patterns and a closer look at the workings of the ukulele. Optional Applied Instruction Section: The MSM teaching artist can instruct the students on their own classroom ukuleles, performing popular songs together over videoconference. A fun, jam-packed program on music and culture!
Grades: 3-5 Length of Program: 45 minutes or one regular class period Cost: $200
HOPPING WITH THE HARP
Join an MSM teaching artist for an interactive exploration of one of music’s most beautiful instruments. While learning about the workings of
the classical harp, students will acquire an understanding of sound and music through interactive games and movement-based activities.
Grades: Pre-K Length of Program: 30–40 minutes or one regular class period Cost: $160
MUSIC, MELODY & ME
A creative and hands-on educational unit designed to supplement elementary school curriculum in the basic building blocks of music. Two optional pre-conference lessons engage students in constructing their own musical instruments and engage their critical thinking skills to discover different sound qualities. The videoconference is a spirited exchange, showing students how sounds are fashioned into music and transforming their own motivic ideas into spontaneous improvisatory compositions. These concepts are also dynamically illustrated by talented Manhattan School of Music teaching artists. Video excerpts demonstrate how great Western composers use motivic design to create their own compositions. Students face the challenge in the post-videoconference lesson of creating melodies of their own.
Grades: 3–5 Length of Program: 45 minutes or one regular class period Cost: $200
Sing into the holiday season with MSM! Join our teaching artists in a holiday themed sing-along to get into the spirit of the season!
Grades: K–6 Length of Program: 30-45 minutes or one regular class period Cost: $200
AMERICAN VOICES: SONG AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE USA
What do the songs and music you listen to say about you? What does a musical artist’s music say about themselves? Join MSM Distance Learning for “American Voices: Song and Citizenship in the U.S.A.” in which we explore American song throughout the 20th century, and how songwriters have used their music to foster social change or promote American cultural and national identity. Within the backdrop of major political and cultural movements of the 20th Century, including the Gilded Age, Progressivism, WWII, the Civil Rights Era, and Globalism. Live and historic performances ranging from Bel Canto Opera, New Orleans Jazz, Gospel, and Pop Music, this program will be presented
in this not-to-miss exploration of American culture as seen through the lens of history and music.
Grades: 11-12; Lifelong Learners Length of program: 60 minutes or one regular class period Cost: $200
Travel with MSM teaching artist Ana Garcia in this one or two-session cultural journey through Spain and/or Latin America. We’ll explore the historic Iberian Peninsula, let loose at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival, and Tango ‘til morning in a smoky Buenos Aires nightclub. As young scholars, students will examine the fiesta’s historical significance in Latin culture through an interactive, analytic study of music, dance, poetry, history, and literature and apply what they learn to discover how leading ‘nationalist’ composers recreated their culture’s ¡Fiesta! inside the concert hall. Schedule in English, Spanish, or both. This class is designed for high schools students in a variety of class disciplines, including history, language arts, Spanish language classes, and music.
Grades: 9–12; Lifelong Learners Length of program: 60 minutes or one regular class period Cost: $200/class or $300/two-part series
In ¡Fiesta! Music and Culture of Latin America for Young Audiences, budding cultural detectives will travel with Teaching Artist, Ana Garcia, where they’ll explore and interact with dance performances, live music, poetry and literature to understand the colorful, culturally significant fiestas of Latin America. ¡Fiesta! explores the historical background and rich cultural traditions of Latin America through music, dance, poetry, literature, and the works of leading ‘nationalist’ composers. Schedule ¡Fiesta! and start your journey today!
Grades: 4-5 Length of program: 60 minutes or one regular class period Cost: $200
What do a Founding Father, the Pacific Theater of WWII, and a midcentury Puerto Rican street gang all have in common? Find out in MSM Distance Learning’s “From Hamilton to West Side Story: Identifying the American Experience through Song.” In this night on the town, we’ll take a trip on the “Great White Way” where we’ll examine three preeminent American musicals, Richard Roger’s South Pacific, Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit Hamilton. Evaluating the historical context and socio-cultural issues in each musical, students will tackle the overt and underlying themes as a means to reflecting on their own cultural and personal identities. In addition to live performance by an MSM teaching artist,
