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2005 Young People's
Concerts Downloads:
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(Orlando, FL – August 8, 2005) – What
is a MELODY? By definition, a melody is a series
of musical tones that may move up, down or repeat,
but to listeners, it is much more than that! It’s
the tune that stays in your head after a concert, the
annoying jingle from a television commercial, the favorite
campfire song you recall from childhood, the theme
song from a popular film, the stirring anthem at ceremonies
both happy and somber.
The Orlando Philharmonic invites
you to Journey Into Melody and explore how
composers create and transform this key element of
music in works for orchestra, opera and ballet. In
1707, Bach created a melody for a fugue subject to
be played on the organ, which is now performed by the
orchestra. At age 12, Mozart composed melodies
for his first opera about a shepherd and his love.
Brahms chose a Hungarian folk melody to arrange as
a dance for orchestra, and Ives created unusual variations
for the patriotic tune “America.” The sound
of solo instruments will be heard in the cadenzas of Capriccio
Espagnol and the jazz improvisations on a Duke
Ellington melody. Students and teachers will
have opportunities to sing melodies with the orchestra
on our national anthem and the Mozart Alleluia.
Guest conductor for the concerts will be Harold Levin,
Principal Conductor of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra.
with
Student Singers On Stage
by
Johann Sebastian Bach
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Singers from Orlando
Opera
by
Charles Ives
by
Johannes Brahms with Dancers from Orlando Ballet
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Audience Singers, led
by Orlando
Opera
by Duke
Ellington
from Capriccio Espagnol
by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Music teachers will receive a packet of materials that
includes a CD, information about the music and composers,
classroom activities, visual aids and more. Get
started with concert preparation by displaying visuals
of the instruments of the orchestra and composers featured
in the concert. Check out these books for reading
aloud or sharing with classroom teachers: The Remarkable
Farkle McBride by John Lithgow, Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull, What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein
and Duke Ellington by Andrea Pinkney.
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