Hestia Homeschool for Young Wild Women

We always attend a few of these symphony performances as part of our homeschooling year.  They are much more exciting than listening to classical music on the radio. Most children are very enthralled with the conductor....and the Symphony also gives free McDonald's Happy Meal certificates in their program, so we follow with a visit to the Yellow Archs so they can play in the indoor tubes and eat junk food. :-)

For Grades 1–12
(weekday mornings)

Each season more than 33,000 students from over 300 schools and groups from Southeast Indiana, Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio attend the CSO's Young People's Concerts in Music Hall.

To help introduce students to orchestral music and the experience of live performance, participating teachers receive stimulating preparatory materials, including Teacher’s Guides for grades 1-3, 4-6 and 7-12 and a CD or cassette tape of the music to be performed. These materials, created in part by the CSO’s Advisory Committee for Education (ACE), enable teachers to make the most of their students’ concert-going experience.

For information about the Young People's Concerts and the Teacher's Guides, please call 513.621.1919. Or complete our reservation form now. (Click here for information about 2004-2005 Educational Workshops for teachers, parents and interested others.)

2004–2005 YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS

PERCUSSION POWER
GRADES 1–3, Program 1 (40-45 minutes):
Series A: 10 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004
Series B: 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004
The CSO Percussion Section is featured, along with John Morris Russell and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a program that focuses on this most fascinating, diverse, and certainly most ancient among the families that make up our orchestra. Programming includes: Rimsky-Korsakov's "Alborada" from Capriccio Espagnole, Mancini's Drummer's Delight, and muchmore!

Teacher's Guides (Acrobat PDF): Background | Lesson Plan | Glossary


BIG BAD BRASS BASH
GRADES 1–3, Program 2 (40-45 minutes):
Series A: 10:15 a.m., Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Series B: 10:15 a.m., Tuesday, March 29, 2005
It's BIG! It's LOUD! It's the CSO's Big Bad Brass Bash! Join John Morris Russell and the CSO as they "blow their own horns" putting the spotlight on those exciting instruments of the Brass Family. Programming includes excerpts from Borodin's Prince Igor Overture, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Kleinsinger's classic, Tubby the Tuba.

Teacher's Guides (Acrobat PDF): Background | Lesson Plan | Glossary


TIME WARP!
GRADES 4–6, Program 1 (50-55 minutes):
Series A: 10 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004
Series B: 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004
Associate Conductor John Morris Russell and the CSO take you on a musical journey through time, demonstrating how the orchestra has changed from the Baroque to present day. Programming includes excerpts from: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (Baroque), Mozart's Marriage of Figaro Overture (Classical), Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 (Romantic), Proto's No. 3 from Three Pieces for Percussion and Orchestra, and a special surprise from the 21st century.

Teacher's Guides (Acrobat PDF): Background | Lesson Plan | Glossary


H2O
GRADES 4–6, Program 2 (50-55 minutes):
Series A: 10:15 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005
Series B: 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Series C: 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 19, 2005
John Morris Russell and the CSO will explore the many ways water — the life-blood of our planet — has influenced composers. Water themes — from gas to liquid to solid, great bodies of water, and celebrations of water — will be illustrated in works including Mozart's Idomeneo Overture, Debussy's Nuages, Beethoven's "Storm Scene" from Symphony No. 6 ("Pastorale"), Vivaldi's "Winter" from The Seasons, and Respighi's Triton Fountain in the Morning from Fountains of Rome.

Teacher's Guides (Acrobat PDF): Background | Lesson Plan | Glossary


CSO ROAD SHOW! (Paavo Järvi conducting!)
GRADES 7–12 (1 hour):
10:15 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004
The CSO is going "on the road" and Music Director Paavo Järvi will take you along! He'll lead the CSO in two selections from the upcoming 2004 European Tour program, including Nielsen's boisterous Maskarade Overture and Sibelius's extraordinary and, as the composer himself said, "triumphal" Fifth Symphony. This concert, complete with commentary on the works, will be a terrific opportunity to hear and see the CSO at its pre-tour best and a rare Young People's Concert appearance by Maestro Järvi!

Teacher's Guide | Glossary (Acrobat PDF)

CSO/CSYO JOINT CONCERT (1 hour)
Paavo Järvi, CSO Music Director, conducting
Eric Dudley, CSO Assistant Conductor/CSYO Conductor, conducting
10:15 a.m., Tuesday, May 4, 2005
Each season the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra combines forces with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to perform an exciting joint concert. Little can be more inspiring than the spectacle of over 200 musicians on stage playing together some of the world's finest music under the direction of the CSO's new Assistant Conductor, Eric Dudley, and Music Director Paavo Järvi.

A special feature of the concert will be the performance of movements from the solo concerto repertoire by the winner of the annual CSYO Concerto Competition. Audience members are given the rare opportunity to see and hear their peers performing next to and as soloists with the CSO.

The Joint Concert is a truly exciting event and is recommended for students in grades 4-12.

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• #1 Comment from my78novata 
  9/19/04 9:35 PM | Permalink

  wow lots of things going on up that way. Lori