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Resource Pack
BrightSparks Concerts for KS1
Tuesday 16th October 2012 10:15am and 12:15pm Royal Festival Hall
Stuart Stratford Conductor Lucy Forde Presenter
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra Education and Community Department
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has a thriving Education and Community Department opening doors for everyone to all sorts of music-making. Each year primary and secondary school pupils enjoy workshops with visiting London Philharmonic Orchestra musicians and specialist workshop leaders. Thousands of children and adults experience live orchestral music for the first time at our BrightSparks Concerts for schools and FUNharmonics Family Concerts. For information on all these projects and much more, please visit the website: www.lpo.org.uk/education; or email: [email protected]; or call Anne Findlay on 020 7840 4202. The London Philharmonic Orchestra Education and Community Department would like to thank Deutsche Bank whose generosity has enabled all tickets for these concerts to be distributed free of charge to schools.
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Contents
Introduction: 4
Concert Programme: 5
The Orchestra: 6
The String Family: 7
The Woodwind Family: 8
The Brass Family: 9
The Percussion Family: 10
Other Instruments of the Orchestra: 12
Learn about the Orchestra: 13
Meet the Composers: 14
Glossary: 24
Flashcards: 25
London Philharmonic Orchestra History: 27
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Introduction
The London Philharmonic orchestra is delighted your school is attending the BrightSparks concerts for Key Stage 1. For many children this concert will be their first experience of an orchestral concert. Many teachers have reported that the more familiar children are with the music before they attend a performance, the better experience they have at the concert. Playing the recordings of the music at as many opportunities as possible before the concert will enhance the children’s enjoyment of the event. For instance - as they arrive in the morning, snack time in the morning break, or at the end of the day after a story. The beauty of classical music is that you can discover new things in the music every time you listen. This resource includes descriptions of orchestral instruments and information about the composers and pieces. We hope you find it useful and informative.
Lucy Forde, Presenter and Alexandra Clarke, Education Manager LPO
The material in this Resource Pack was written by BrightSparks presenter Lucy Forde and LPO Education Manager Alexandra Clarke. The Pack was produced by the London Philharmonic Orchestra Education & Community Department, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP. Tel: 020 7840 4200. Fax: 020 7840 4201. Box Office: 020 7840 4242. Website: www.lpo.org.uk©
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Concert Programme
Carrington Fanfare Kabalevsky Gallop from The Comedians Mussorgsky The Hut on Fowl’s Legs Nott Wallace and Gromit theme Mozart Symphony No.29 Finale Saint-Saens The Swan Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C Anderson Bugler’s Holiday Sherman Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (audience song) Copland Hoe Down
Recordings Our grateful thanks go to Naxos for providing access to the Naxos Music Library website where you can listen to recordings of some of the works to be performed at the concert. The playlist is ‘Bright Sparks 16 October 2012’, and can be found on our website here: http://www.lpo.co.uk/education/schools_resources.html
To access the recordings enter the following username and password: Username: BS161012 Password: fanfare
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The Orchestra
There are 75 musicians in the London Philharmonic Orchestra and they play many different kinds of instruments. These instruments are split into four families, or sections, called strings, woodwind, brass and percussion. The sections of the orchestra combine in different ways to produce different sounds. The conductor stands in from of the orchestra, he/she holds a stick called a baton, and they direct the overall shape of the sound by controlling speed and volume.
Composers are the people who write the music for the orchestra to play.
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The String Family
There are four instruments in the string family.
They look similar but are different sizes.
The sound is made by drawing the bow over the strings or plucking the string with a finger.
A bow is a long stick of wood that has hair from a horse’s tail stretched tightly across it.
The strings are the largest section of the orchestra; there are about 50 of them.
The Violin The Violin is the smallest instrument in the string family. The violins are split into two sections called the first violins and the second violins. The violin is held horizontally under the chin. Since the violin is small it can play high and often plays the main tune.
The Viola The viola looks like the violin but it is a little bigger, so it has a lower sound. It is held horizontally under the chin like the violin. The viola has a warm, mellow sound and usually plays the notes in the middle of the music to support the tune.
The Cello The cello is bigger than the violin and viola and has a lower sound. To play the cello you sit on a chair and hold it between your legs. The cello is held up off the ground by a long metal spike. It sometimes plays the low notes in the orchestra but often it is given the tune because of its beautiful sound. It is a very versatile instrument.
The Double Bass The double bass is the largest instrument in the string family and has a very low sound. It is very tall and to play it you have to sit on a stool or stand up. The double bass often plays the lowest notes in the VIOLIN orchestra - the bass notes.
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The Woodwind Family
All of the woodwind instruments are made of wood with metal keys apart from the flute which is usually made of metal, but used to be made of wood.
Woodwind instruments look like long tubes with holes in them covered by keys. To make a sound on the woodwind instruments you must blow down them.
Different notes are produced by holding different combinations of fingers over the holes/ keys. The more holes and keys the fingers cover the further the air has to travel down the tube which produces a lower pitch, releasing your fingers from the holes produces a higher pitch because the air does not travel as far.
Flute The flute is held horizontally and to make the sound you must blow across the hole on the top part of the flute called the head joint. It has a beautiful, high sound and often has solos that you can hear over the orchestra. The flute has a smaller sister called the piccolo, which is very small and even higher than the flute.
Oboe The oboe is called a “double reed” instrument because you make the sound by blowing between two pieces of wood or “reeds” that are tied together with string. It is very important in the orchestra because it plays the note “A” for all the other instruments to tune to before they perform. Oboe players often play the big brother of the oboe called the ‘Cor Anglais’ or ‘English Horn’ which is bigger than the oboe and so has a lower sound.
Clarinet The clarinets sit behind the flutes in the orchestra. It is a “single reed” instrument because it has a single thin piece of wood or reed that vibrates against the mouth piece when you blow down it. The clarinet can play extremely quietly and extremely loudly. Clarinet players play all sorts of different clarinets from the small and shrill E Flat Clarinet to the large, slinky Bass Clarinet.
Bassoon The bassoon is the largest instrument in the woodwind section and makes the lowest sound. Like the oboe the bassoon is also a “double reed” instrument because you blow through two thin pieces of wood tied together to make the sound. Sometimes the bassoon plays funny melodies that make people laugh. It has a big brother called the contra-bassoon that makes a very low sound. The contra-bassoon is so big the bassoonist has to rest it on the CLARINET floor.
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The Brass Family
Brass instruments are all made out of shiny brass. All brass instruments are long metal tubes that are curled up to make it easier
to hold.
To make the sound on a brass instrument you buzz your lips whilst blowing into a mouthpiece.
The metal tubes flare out at the end and we call this the bell.
Brass instruments are very loud and are often used outdoors in military bands.
Brass instruments often play fanfares which are short pieces of music to announce important people like the Queen.
The Trumpet The trumpet makes a high, triumphant sound. Different notes are made by changing the way you buzz into the mouthpiece and by pressing down keys called valves. There are 3 valves on the trumpet.
The Horn The French Horn is made of a very, very long curled tube of brass with a big bell on the end. When you unwind a horn, the tubing is around 4 metres long. Different notes are made by the way you buzz into the mouthpiece and by pressing down keys called valves. The horn has three or four valves. The first horns were made from the horns of animals, such as rams’ horns, and were used during hunts to give directions to the hunters.
The trombone The trombone has a slide that moves in and out to change the sound. When you move the slide smoothly you can make a sliding sound called a glissando. The trombone plays the notes in the middle of the brass section between the high trumpets and the low tuba.
The tuba The tuba is the largest member of the brass family and makes a very low sound. Usually only one tuba plays in an orchestra because they are very loud. The tuba has valves like the trumpet to change the sound. The tuba is FRENCH HORN around 5.5 metres long when it is uncurled.
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The Percussion Family
The percussion family is huge. A few examples are below.
Anything that is hit or is shaken is called percussion.
Some percussion instruments play notes (tuned) and others just make sounds (untuned).
The percussion family often plays the rhythms that help keep the orchestra together.
Timpani (Tuned Percussion) The timpani are very big drums that sit at the back of the orchestra. They are also called “kettle drums” because they are shaped like big copper kettles. They have a skin made of plastic or animal stretched over the top and you make the sound on them by striking the top of the drum (called the drum head) with sticks. You can change the pitch of the timpani (from high to low) by pressing a pedal that tightens and loosens the skin head.
Marimba (Tuned Percussion) The Marimba is a set of wooden bars of different lengths mounted on a frame. The bars are struck with mallets to make the sound, the longer the wooden bar the lower the pitch. Usually there are tubes underneath each of the sticks to make the sound louder.
Vibraphone (Tuned Percussion) The Vibraphone looks similar to the Marimba but has aluminium bars instead of wooden bars.
Triangle (Tuned Percussion) The triangle is made from steel and is struck with a steel beater. It has a high pitched sound rather like a bell. TIMPANI
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The Percussion Family continued…
Cymbals (Untuned Percussion) The cymbals consist of a pair of brass plates. The musician holds the cymbals by two leather straps attached to each plate. To make the sound they are struck together. Cymbals can also be played in other ways, for instance they can be suspended from a stand and struck by a mallet.
Bass Drum (Untuned Percussion) The Bass drum is very large and positioned on its side. It is struck with a large mallet, the mallet head has a soft covering, the sound of the bass drum is very deep.
The Snare Drum (Untuned Percussion) The snare drum has a set of wires strung across the bottom of the drum that rattle when you hit the drum. Snare drums are good for playing rolls where the player bounces the sticks off the drum to make a continuous sound. The snare drum is also used in marching bands and in drum kits. BASS DRUM
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Other Instruments of the Orchestra
Harp The Harp has a triangular frame with about 45 strings stretched across it. The musician plucks the strings to make the sound. There are also pedals at the bottom of the harp that the musician can press down to alter the length of the string to produce more notes.
Piano The inside of a piano is rather like a harp. The sound is produced by the musician pressing down the keys which operate hammers that strike the strings.
HARP
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Learn about the Orchestra
In preparation for this lesson you can hear the sounds of the orchestra here: http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/the_orchestra/instruments/
Activity 1: Orchestral Families
Talk to the children about the different instruments in the orchestra and show them pictures. Use the instrument flashcards at the back of this pack, and give to individual or groups of children. Using the plan of the orchestra on page 6 (you may wish to expand this on to A3) help the children to place their pictures where their instruments should go.
Activity 2: Human Orchestra
Now help the children make a class orchestra in a large space where each child sits in the position of the instrument they have drawn. Using the names of the instruments, or even just the orchestral family, make up a clapping rhythms for each section using the syllables of the words e.g. cla-ri-net (3 claps) for the woodwind section, trum-pet (2 claps) for the brass, or per-cuss-ion (3 claps) for the percussion family. Invite different children to be a conductor at the front. The conductor will point to each section to clap their rhythm and will tell them to stop using palms facing forward.
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Meet the composer...
Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904 – 1987)
A Russian composer born in St Petersburg.
He started studying musical composition at the Moscow Conservatory in 1925, and became a professor there in 1932.
He worked hard in Russia to improve music education for children.
Much of his music was written especially for children and young people, and are still used by music teachers today.
About the music...
Galop from The Comedians
This music was written for a children’s play called ‘The Inventor and the Comedians’, about a German inventor and a group of travelling buffoons. The play was performed at the Central Children’s Theatre in Moscow in 1940. The comedians in the play were a troupe of actors who went from town to town setting up their show and trying to attract a crowd, just as the circus does. The Galop is the second piece in a collection of ten pieces written for the play. A galop was traditionally a fast, lively and easy dance, so you can imagine all the comedians dancing around in a funny manner to attract passers by!
Activity: Discuss with your class why this music sounds like a Galop, and why it sounds like a bunch of comedians/buffoons? What might they be doing to attract attention in this piece of music? How does it sound funny?
Like it? Try Aram Khachaturian’s ‘Sabre Dance’.
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Meet the composer...
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Mussorgsky was Russian and a lot of his music was inspired by Russian folklore.
He was born in Karevo to a noble & wealthy land owning family.
His mother started teaching him to play the piano from age 6.
By the age of 12 he had written and had his first piece of music published.
At age 13 he had to go into the army but eventually left and received composition lessons from Balakirev – a Russian composer and pianist.
He became one of the ‘Russian Five’ – a group of composers that wrote music with a distinct Russian feel.
About the music...
The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
This piece comes from Pictures at an Exhibition, composed in 1894, and one of Mussorgsky’s most famous works. It describes walking around an art exhibition and looking at individual paintings. He even wrote a walking theme, to get from one painting/piece of music to the next called Promenade. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs was written for piano and describes a painting of a clock with chicken’s legs, which is intended to remind the listener of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga the witch. She lived in a house with chicken’s legs so that she could move the house around wherever she wanted, and would then lure children in to her hut to eat them. In 1922 the composer Ravel arranged the whole suite of music for orchestra.
Activity: Ask your class to draw Baba Yaga and her hut on chicken’s legs. Imagine the painting comes alive. What might the witch and the hut be doing to this music? You can find out about Baba Yaga here: www.oldrussia.net.
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Meet the composer...
Julian Nott (1960 – present)
A British composer, born in London.
He has written the music for all the Wallace and Gromit films.
He attended the British National Film and Television School, where he met the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park.
He studied Music, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, and is even a trained barrister!
He has also written music for other film and television programmes, including Peppa Pig.
About the music...
Theme from Wallace and Gromit
The theme tune from the Wallace and Gromit films has become almost as famous as the films themselves. As the two inventing heroes are supposed to live in or near Wigan, Lancashire, Nott wrote a theme tune for them that would evoke the spirit of that area. Lancashire and Yorkshire are renowned for their traditional brass bands, and so the music captures that north-west England sound. In brass band there are all the brass instruments mentioned on page 8, but also percussion instruments such as cymbals and different kinds of drums. The tune is bouncy, fun and light-hearted – much like the well-loved characters.
Activity: Go to the BBC website to see clips of the Wallace and Gromit BBC Prom, performed on Sunday 29th July at the Royal Albert Hall, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/july-29/14312
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Meet the composer...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Mozart was born in Salzburg in Austria in 1756.
His father was also a composer, and taught the young Mozart and his older sister to play their instruments.
Mozart was known as a ‘child prodigy’, meaning that at a very young age he was already very talented and able.
He started touring as a musician at the age of 7 and had written his first three symphonies by 8.
He wrote well over 600 pieces of music in his short lifetime, including many famous symphonies and operas.
About the music...
Symphony No. 29, 4th movement
This 29th symphony was composed in 1774, when Mozart was 18 years old. It has four parts to it, the last of which you will hear at the concert. It is very fast and energetic and sprightly. The very fast upward scales played by the violins were known as a ‘Mannheim Rocket’, in tribute to the orchestra from Mannheim, Germany, which was the greatest orchestra of its day, and who invented new and exciting ways of playing.
Activity: Look up The Horrible Histories Big Prom Party from the 30th July BBC Proms 2011, for the Mozart vs. Beethoven sketch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OuJUU_9G8.
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Meet the composer...
Camille Saint-Saens (1835 – 1921)
He was a French composer, born in Paris in 1835.
His aunt introduced him to the piano, and started to give him lessons from the age of 2. He wrote his first composition before his 4th birthday.
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, studying the organ and composition.
He became very close friends with the famous composer Franz Liszt.
He wrote many pieces of music in his lifetime, and one of his most famous pieces is Danse Macabre, which is a piece based on skeletons dancing in a graveyard on the night of Halloween.
About the music...
The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
The Swan comes from a larger work called The Carnival of the Animals, which is made up of lots of pieces of music depicting different animals. Saints-Saens was very clever, and used certain instruments and melodies to clearly indicate each animal. The Swan is represented by the cello, which has a deep lush sound, with strings and harp representing the swan’s feet paddling beneath the surface of the water. It is the most famous movement from the whole work, and is very beautiful.
Activity: How would you represent other animals through music? Discuss this with your class, possibly using percussion to explore how a big heavy elephant might sound, or little twittering birds, or a slow snail.
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Meet the composer...
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy in 1678.
He was nicknamed ‘il Prete Rosso’ (the Red Priest) because of his red hair, and was a composer, priest, and violinist.
He spent most of his life teaching at the Ospedale della Pieta (Devout Hospital of Mercy), which was a convent, orphanage and music school in Venice.
Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensembles of the orphanage, which became famous for their talents under Vivaldi’s teaching.
He wrote many operas and choral works, as well as many orchestral pieces. His most famous is The Four Seasons, which depicts each of the seasons through music
About the music...
Piccolo Concerto in C
This piece was published in 1729. Vivaldi wrote more than 500 other similar concertos for different instruments, often a practice pieces for his students. A piccolo is a half-sized flute – it works and is played in the same way, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than what is written in the music. Its high pitch makes it easily heard above the sound of the accompanying orchestra, and therefore a good solo instrument.
Activity: Looking at the instrument pictures above, and in the context of the piccolo, discuss with your class about how smaller instruments make higher noises, and bigger instruments lower noise – because of the size and more space/air going through the instrument.
Like it? Try JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.4, Movement 1.
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Meet the composer...
Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975)
An American composer from Massachusetts, USA.
He studied piano at New England Conservatory of Music aged 11 and started learning the trombone at high school.
He continued his musical studies at Harvard University, one of the best universities in the world.
He studied a number of languages – Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, German, French, Italian and Portuguese – he had intended to become a language teacher but decided against the idea and concentrated on a career in music.
He was the composer who wrote the hugely famous Christmas favourite ‘Sleigh Ride’.
He is famous for writing ‘light’ concert music - meaning that it was a little less serious than typical music for the orchestra.
About the music...
Bugler’s Holiday
Anderson wrote this piece in 1954 imagining three military buglers on holiday. A bugle is a type of trumpet without any keys, so the player changes notes by changing the shape of their mouth on the mouthpiece. The bugle is used mainly in the military to indicate the daily routine of camp. However, this piece is written for 3 trumpets, and is very fast and lively, and very hard to play! All three trumpeters must stay absolutely in time all the way through, as they play together throughout the piece as a trio.
Activity: Can you devise with your class musical calls or rhythms that indicate different activities, like a bugler in a military camp? A very simple melody, or clapped rhythm, in place of a spoken instruction. Can your pupils take the lead and make a musical instruction up? You can use words, but they must be sung!
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Meet the composer...
Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990)
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900 to Lithuanian parents.
He was an American composer, teacher and writer, as well as a conductor in his later years.
In 1935 he wrote El Salón México, which introduced a new kind of composition based on folk music. He then wrote music for the ballets Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring, both of which were also based in folk music and the American folk tradition.
He also wrote music soundtracks for film and radio, often for films or shows about America.
He is acknowledged as having helped create the ‘American’ sound, his music bringing to mind the American landscape and the ‘pioneer spirit’.
One of his most famous pieces is Fanfare for the Common Man.
About the music...
Hoe Down from Rodeo
Rodeo is a ballet, which was first performed in 1942, and has five sections, Hoe Down being the last. Copland often incorporated traditional American folk tunes into his work. Rodeo was unique in that he inserted them into the score and left them completely intact. Hoe Down itself is based on the American folk song ‘Bonyparte’s Retreat’. The Hoe Down, as the last section of the ballet, ends the story of a lovelorn cowgirl, finally having won the love of a worthy cowboy. A hoedown is a traditional fast paced folk dance, like a barn dance.
Activity: Can you hold a barn dance in your classroom? Introduce some very simple steps, like the dosey-doe, hand clapping, dancing in circles. Make sure you have some Teaching Assistants handy!
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Audience Participation Song
The song ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ was written by the Sherman brothers for the 1964 Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’.
The film was set in 1910, so the song was deliberately written to sound old fashioned.
The word itself is for people to use when they have nothing to say. In the film, Mary Poppins has just won a horse race, and is immediately surrounded by reporters who ask her lots of questions. In response, she simply begins the song.
Before the penultimate piece of the concert there will be an audience participation song for every child in the auditorium to join in with. Please sing this with your class ahead of 16th October so that they are prepared for this moment in the concert. Lyrics will be projected on to the big screen behind the orchestra.
You can download the song from the Sing Up website at: http://www.singup.org/songbank/song-bank/song-detail/view/432-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious/
Please note: In the concert the audience will not be singing the words of Verse 2. This verse will be taken as an instrumental section from some very special guest performers. The audience will then come in on the chorus and continue to Verse 3. The lyrics on the screen will reflect this.
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Lyrics
Chorus Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, If you say it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Um diddle-iddle-iddle, um diddle ay, um diddle-iddle-iddle, um diddle ay...
Verse 1 Because I was afraid to speak when I was just a lad,
My father gave me nose a tweak and told me I was bad. But then one day I learned a word that saved me achin’ nose, The biggest word I’d ever heard, and this is how it goes:
Chorus
Verse 2 Instrumental interlude
Verse 3 So when the cat has got your tongue, there’s no need to dismay, Just summon up this word and then you’ve got a lot to say. But better use it carefully or it can change your life, One night I said it to me girl and now me girls’ me wife! Oh...
Chorus to end
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Glossary
Movement
A self contained part of a musical composition. Sometimes individual movements from a composition are
performed separately, but a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in order.
Concerto A musical composition made up of three movements, in which usually one solo instrument is accompanied by an
orchestra.
Symphony An extended musical composition almost always for orchestra with four movements.
Octave
An interval, or gap, of 8 notes.
Score Sheet music – the written presentation of music.
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Flashcards
For all of the pieces you can use these flashcards for the children to say what they think the music is like. Feel free to add/take away from these. The activities included in this pack are a merely guide to help you to introduce these works to your class.
Fast Funny Old Calming Fashioned
Happy Slow Loud Sad
Silly New/Modern Bouncy High
Serious Low Beautiful Long
Quiet Scary Ugly Short
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Flashcards You can use these pictures to familiarize your class with all the different instruments of the orchestra.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra History
Seventy-eight years after Sir Thomas Beecham founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra; it is recognised today as one of the finest orchestras on the international stage. Following Beecham’s influential founding tenure the Orchestra’s Principal Conductorship has been passed from one illustrious musician to another, amongst them Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. This impressive tradition continued in September 2007 when Vladimir Jurowski became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, and in a further exciting move, the Orchestra appointed Yannick Nézet-Séguin, its new Principal Guest Conductor from September 2008. Julian Anderson became the Orchestra’s Composer in Residence in September 2010. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been performing at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall since it opened in 1951, becoming Resident Orchestra in 1992. It plays there around 40 times each season with many of the world’s most sought after conductors and soloists. The Orchestra also has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and performs regularly around the UK. It is unique in combining these concert activities with esteemed opera performances each summer at Glyndebourne Festival Opera where it has been the Resident Symphony Orchestra since 1964. The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs to enthusiastic audiences all round the world. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra. Touring continues to form a significant part of the Orchestra’s schedule and is supported by Aviva, the International Touring Partner of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Tours in 2010/11 include visits to Finland, Germany, South Korea, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Having long been embraced by the recording, broadcasting and film industries, the London Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts regularly on domestic and international television and radio. It also works with the Hollywood and UK film industries, recording soundtracks for blockbuster motion pictures including the Oscar-winning score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The London Philharmonic Orchestra made its first recordings on 10 October 1932, just three days after its first public performance. It has recorded and broadcast regularly ever since, and in 2005 established its own record label. Its own-label releases are widely available at record shops and can be downloaded from its website. Visit www.lpo.org.uk/shop for the latest releases. The Orchestra reaches thousands of Londoners through its rich programme of community and school-based activity in Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, which includes the offshoot ensembles Renga and The Band, its Foyle Future Firsts apprenticeship scheme for outstanding young instrumentalists, and regular family and schools concerts. There are many ways to experience and stay in touch with the Orchestra’s activities: visit www.lpo.org.uk, subscribe to our podcast series, download our iPhone application and join us on Facebook and Twitter.
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