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Young People’s Concerts are interactive and highly engaging musical experiences tailored specifically for teachers, students, and families. Each concert features the full Minnesota Orchestra and explores a specific musical element, composer, time period or theme. And this year, the 2020-21 Young People's Concert season will move to a digital format, available for free on-demand viewing.
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Upcoming Young People's Concerts
At a Glance
This concert is recommended for grades 1-6.
Go on a musical journey to meet animals and experience their habitats!
Musical Menagerie will invite viewers to connect music with animals—thanks to a partnership with The Minnesota Zoo—in a live concert that presents a variety of composers and styles of music as well as unique film elements and guests from the Zoo. Available via livestream and on-demand, and presented in partnership with Twin Cities PBS (TPT).
Program TBD
Get ready for the concert or deepen your experience afterward with our concert curriculum and additional activity suggestions (coming soon).
Artists
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Sarah Hicks, conductor and host
Young People’s Concerts Are Supported By:
Individual Donors
- Vi Victoria Deiro*
- Mary Ann Feldman Music Education Fund
Corporate Donors
At a Glance
This concert is recommended for grades 3-6.
Here’s an intriguing question: How do composers put together musical building blocks—tonal and rhythmic patterns, combinations of harmonies, melodies, textures and more—to communicate with audiences?
Students will find answers in the melodies Rossini used to mark separate sections of his high-spirited Barber of Seville Overture, and in Schubert’s way of introducing a melody, then breaking it down and moving it around within the orchestra. Taking Shostakovich as an example, percussionists will demonstrate the recurring patterns and accents, steady beats and bars that make up meter. Finally, students will show their own skills in recognizing all these elements in Chávez's Aztec-themed Sinfonía india.
Program
ROSSINI
Overture to The Barber of Seville / 7 min
SCHUBERT
Allegro moderato, from Symphony in B minor, Unfinished / 3 min
SHOSTAKOVICH
Allegro, from Symphony No. 10 / 4 min
CHÁVEZ
Sinfonía india / 11 min
Artists
- Minnesota Orchestra
Young People’s Concerts Are Supported By:
Individual Donors
- Vi Victoria Deiro*
- Mary Ann Feldman Music Education Fund
Corporate Donors
Accessibility at Orchestra Hall
Young People's Concerts are supported by:
Individual Donors
- Vi Victoria Deiro*
- Mary Ann Feldman Music Education Fund
Corporate Donors