Colorado Public Radio’s Kids' Music Week April 9-15

Colorado Public Radio will be celebrating Kids’ Music Week with special 4 pm after-school programs for children, a live broadcast of the Colorado Symphony, a live broadcast by Colorado Symphony musicians in the CPR Performance Studio, and a performance by the Young Artists Orchestra. In addition, CPR will be airing features about teachers and students who have received hundreds of instruments from the station's annual Instrument Drives.

All of these programs can be heard at www.cpr.org or on the broadcast frequencies of Colorado Public Radio’s classical channel (see list at bottom)

The following is a day by day schedule of events.

Monday, April 9 at 4 pm: Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Tuesday, April 10 at 10 am: Live broadcast of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's Youth Concert conducted by Scott O'Neil.

TAN DUN Hero Overture CALVIN STANDING BEAR Windcatcher, Quiet One, Buffalo’s Heart BLAS GALINDO Sones de Mariachi PERCY GRAINGER “Irish Tune from County Derry” (Danny Boy) WILLIAM GRANT STILL Afro-American Symphony, Third Movement MASCAGNI Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana MOZART Allegro from Serenade in G – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Tuesday, April 10 at 4 pm: John Williams: Music from Star Wars, Harry Potter and E.T.

Wednesday, April 11 at 4 pm: Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Thursday, April 12 at 4 pm: Camille Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals

Thursday, April 12 at 6 pm: Live broadcast from the CPR Performance Studio of ONCE UPON A TIME a delightful program of music and storytelling that uses music as a prominent element of the story. Presented by musicians of the Colorado Symphony.

Friday, April 13 at 4 pm: Cartoon Music

Saturday, April 14 at 10 am: Lemony Snicket's, The Composer is Dead.

Sunday, April 15 at 7 pm: The Denver Young Artists Orchestra Concerto Competition Winner, cellist Kelcey Howell, in concert with the orchestra (recorded live in Boettcher Concert Hall on March 11, 2012) Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Op. 74, "Pathetique"

Colorado Public Radio's Classical service can be heard at www.cpr.org as well as on the following frequencies Denver KVOD 88.1 FM Boulder 99.9 FM

Dove Creek 88.7 FM

Gunnison 89.1 FM Cortez 102.5 FM Pueblo KCFP 91.9 FM

Colorado Springs 94.7

Delta (Grand Junction to Montrose) KPRU 103.3 FM

Glenwood Springs KVOV 90.5 FM Aspen 101.5 FM Crystal River Valley 93.9 FM Old Snowmass 93.9 FM Thomasville 93.7 FM Title Schools can apply for free instruments

Title One schools in Colorado can apply to receive instruments that were donated to our annual instrument drive. They are currently being repaired, but by the end of April we will know how many clarinets, flutes, trumpets, violins, cellos, guitars, etc. were received and we can begin selecting schools to receive them. Over the past two years we have distributed more than 1,000 instruments to more than 40 schools throughout Colorado, and we will have several hundred more to award as a result of the instrument drive that ended on March 17.

Interested schools should go to our web site: www.cpr.org, then click on the article about the instrument drive and find the link for the application. They can apply online.

Steve Blatt Director of Community Programs Colorado Public Radio 303-871-9191 Ext. 362