This month we met a man who was not only an acclaimed American composer, pianist, and music lecturer, but a famous conductor as well!! The kids enjoyed learning about Leonard Bernstein and how versatile he was. We reviewed important music vocab like conductor, genre, overture, musical, and others. It was fun to see how passionate he was about bringing music to everyone with his Young People's Concerts. What a great last composer of the year!
Candide Overture
Maria from West Side Story
I Hate Music: Cycle of 5 Kid Songs
This month we dived head-first into the amazing world of jazz and the kids LOVED it! There are so many great jazz composers and musicians, but perhaps the most influential and talented one is this month's composer-Duke Ellington! Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer (1000+ pieces), pianist, and bandleader of jazz orchestras with a career spanning over 50 years. We enjoyed listening to and learning some of the major differences of jazz and other genres. Students even got to try improvising on instruments and scatting with some of the tracks!
Take the A Train (Billy Strayhorn collaboration)
C Jam Blues
It Don't Mean a Thing
5th
Grade was transformed into buccaneers in their fun music program, How
to Be a Pirate in 7 Easy Songs. They learned how to talk and dress like a
pirate, raise the Jolly Roger, follow a treasure map to find loot, and
so much more! Both the kids and audience alike was full of pirate pride
by the end of the program-check out our swashbuckling photos!
