Let’s Tell A Story TEACHER’S GUIDE

Very Young People’s Concerts Knoxville: January 28, 2016 Maryville: January 29, 2016

Music Can Make Your Life Complete Table of Contents Lucas Richman Meet the Conductor ...... 2 Notes on Pieces and Composers ...... 3-8 The Birthday Present Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra ...... 9 Lucas Richman Meet the Performers and Musicians ...... 10-11 Activities and Lessons ...... 12-14 Overture to T he M Concert Program ...... 15-16 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartarriage of Audience Job Description / Acknowledgements ...... 17 F Playground Escapades igaro Lucas Richman

Blow the Man Down Traditional / arr. Lucas Richman

Flight of the Bumblebee Hi! I’m Picardy Penguin. Follow me through this Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov guide for interesting musical facts and history. First, we will learn about the conductor. P eter and the A conductor is a person who leads the orchestra. You can learn Sergei Prokofiev W more about conductors on the next page of this guide! olf Look for this symbol throughout the guide for specific Please note that this publication may be copied things to listen for at the concert. and used for educational encouraged to copy the And this symbol means you should sing 15-16 for use with your st along with us at the concert! purposes only. You are concert program on pages udents in the classroom. 1

Meet the Conductor

Steven Karidoyanes grew up in , where his Greek parents taught him and his sisters and brother to love music, friends and family. He was also taught the importance of hard work and dedication. His father owned a sandwich shop where young Steven worked as a teenager, and it was there that he learned to “treat [people] so well that they have to come back and bring family and friends…” From that idea developed Mr. Karidoyanes’ philosophy of concern for audiences and other musicians with whom he performs. Maestro Karidoyanes has conducted the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra for more than twenty years. He is also Music Director of the Conservatory Youth Symphony, leading concerts not only in Boston but in tours of , , Costa Rica, Eastern Europe and Ireland. There’s more: Mr. Karidoyanes conducts Masterworks Chorale, which performs at Harvard University, and is a regular understudy conductor for The Boston Pops. In addition to all those conducting jobs, he also finds time to teach future conductors and compose his own music. And, he works as a classical music announcer/producer, having worked for NPR radio stations in Boston, and . For his performance as guest conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, let’s give Maestro Karidoyanes a big welcome to Tennessee!

The conductor of an orchestra is the leader. Conductors must know a great deal about music, the great composers, and their works. They must also have the skills and personality to direct many players at once and to help the players work together as a team. Conductors understand how each instrument works and the special qualities of each instrument. Most importantly, they learn each piece of music well enough to guide all the players in exciting performances! 2

Music Can Make Your Life Complete Lucas Richman (1964-Present)

“Music Can Make Your Life Complete” is the theme song for the KSO’s Very Young People’s Concerts. The composer is Lucas Richman.

Join our guest performer to sing the refrain of this piece.

Often conductors hold a baton, a stick that they use to mark the beats of the music for the orchestra to follow.

Do you see the baton that Maestra Jo- ann Falletta is using? Conductors are addressed by the title Maestro, for men, or Maestra, for women. This Italian word means “teacher.” 3

The Birthday Present Lucas Richman (1964-Present)

The Birthday Present This song tells the story of someone who has I was going to a birthday party to find a gift for a friend’s birthday. But I didn’t have a present for my friend. What does the composer do to make I was running late and becoming nervous the music sound like the person is That I just might not arrive until the end. worried? (He writes it in a minor key.)

Oh, what should I do? How does the singer make the sound What should I do? What should I do? more dramatic? (She sings it an octave higher.) If I arrived with no gift then my friend might be sad, The composer adds a fast jazz rhythm But being late to the fun also would be bad. for string bass, drums and brass, to That would be so very, very, make the music sound more nervous. very, very, very, very, very bad. The strings and a solo oboe help us So, what did I do? hear how the person is thinking of an What did I do? What did I do? answer to her problem.

Well, I wrote my friend a birthday song Finally, the music ends like the story As I made my way to the party throng, does—happy and triumphant! And I sang my birthday gift on time! 4

Overture to T he M Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartarriage (1756-1791) of F Born in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who,igaro at age three, began to play the harpsichord by watching his older sister’s lessons. By the time he was five he could play both harpsichord and violin quite well, and he began to write his first music. His father and teacher, Leopold, helped him write down his pieces until he learned how to do it himself. Leopold took his two children on concert tours throughout Europe from the time that Wolfgang was six years old. Wolfgang continued to amaze his family and those who met him, not only by playing music that his father taught him—he could hear a new piece once or twice and then play it perfectly (or write it down) by memory!

Today, Mozart is one of the best-known and most popular composers from the Classical period of music. He wrote an astonishingly large amount of music, including works for piano, for small groups of instruments and for orchestra. He also wrote operas (his first at age eleven), and you will hear the introduction to one of these at the KSO concert. Sadly, this musical genius became ill and died when he was only 35 years old. The Marriage of Figaro, for which Mozart

wrote the music, is a comic opera and one Q. What is an opera? of the most widely performed operas in the A. An opera is a kind of performance in which actors sing world. It tells the story of Figaro, a servant all or most of the words of a play with music performed in a palace in Spain, and his upcoming by an orchestra. marriage to Susanna. Before the wedding, there is much silliness among all the Q. What is an overture? characters as they try to sort out love’s A. An overture is a piece of music played at the beginning mysteries. of a play, musical or opera. Often you will hear in an overture short sections of music from the large work Listen as the orchestra sets the mood that will follow, but that is not the case with Mozart’s of the opera. Can you hear people overture to his opera The Marriage of Figaro. running around acting silly? 5

Playground Escapades Blow the Man Down Lucas Richman (1964-Present) Traditional / Arr. Lucas Richman (1964-Present) Escapades Lucas Richman wrote Playground to tell the story of activities that can happen during recess at school. Listen to the notes move up and down in small steps, or in big jumps (intervals), and how the speed of the music (tempo) gets faster or slower, to tell the story.

Can you hear…

…string instruments jumping rope or Blow the Man Down is the type of song known as a playing tetherball? sea shanty—a work song once sung by sailors or …bassoons and string basses playing pirates. Sea shanties were used to pass the time and hopscotch? to help a team of workers move together in a smooth rhythm, before modern machines and …races being run by flutes, French horns steam engines replaced the hard labor of hoisting and snare drum? huge sails or rowing, as well as other tasks. The …the brass section misbehaving like a big verses of these work songs would change from one bully and starting a fight? time to the next, according to the story being made up as the singers worked; but the tune and chorus …the teacher, played by the English horn? remained the same. 6

Flight of the Bumblebee Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Tale of Tsar Saltan Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a Many people who have never heard of Rimsky- Russian composer born into an Korsakov still recognize a short excerpt from aristocratic family with a long line of one of his operas. The excerpt is known as military and naval service. An older brother was a very Flight of the Bumblebee, and the opera is The high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who . The story is based on a helped young Nikolai establish a naval career at a very Russian fairy tale. young age. Nikolai loved the ocean, and to travel to faraway lands to learn new things; but the best part Once upon a time… about his various jobs in the navy was a good salary There was a young prince whose cruel aunts that allowed him to follow his real passion, music. cast him into the sea (they were jealous of their younger sister, his mother the queen). The He had begun piano lessons at age six, but later wrote prince grew up on the island where he washed about himself that he played “badly, carelessly…” ashore. One day he rescued a magic swan, who While getting his naval education, he became friends showed her thanks by making him the ruler of with a group of Russian composers and realized he the island. When he told her that he wanted to loved writing music more than playing it. He became return to his home, she turned him into a especially well-known for his skills at orchestration bumblebee so he could visit without being (choosing which instruments would sound best to tell a recognized. At his father’s palace, he stung both story or mimic a character like a bumblebee). Rimsky- aunts and his cruel grandmother! Back at his Korsakov and his musical colleagues became known island realm, he learned that the magic swan as the Russian Five, best known for a nationalistic style was actually a beautiful princess, so of course of writing that included many Russian folk tunes. he married her! Do you hear the bumblebee buzzing …and they lived happily ever after. around? And his stings? 7

Peter and the Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Wolf The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev was born in a small village in Ukraine. As a young Perhaps one of the most beloved musical child he showed musical talent and his tales for children, Peter and the Wolf was mother taught him to play the piano. He began to write music commissioned by a children’s theater in when he was five and later his mother moved with him to Saint Moscow. The goal was to “cultivate Petersburg so he could get a good music education there. After Sergei’s graduation from school he traveled around Europe to musical tastes in children…” The work’s learn more. composer, Sergi Prokofiev, recalled after the premiere that it did not attract much World War I and the Russian Revolution made it hard to live and attention and that attendance was very the Wolf. work in Russia, so Prokofiev moved to other places, including the poor. , southern Germany and Paris. But he missed his homeland and eventually returned to Russia. In the years since that inauspicious start in

Prokofiev had special skill in using music to tell a story. One of his 1936, much attention indeed has been most famous musical stories is the one on our concert, Peter and bestowed on Peter and the Wolf. It has It was written for a children’s theater in Russia, but has been presented by the world’s top ballet since been performed all over the world. Prokofiev also wrote and theater companies, recorded by many symphonies, ballets, operas and music for films. orchestras with celebrity narrators, and

—adapted from classicsforkids.com made into several different film versions. Prokofiev himself visited Walt Disney at Listen to the instruments of the orchestra as they play the the Disney Studio and inspired the Disney parts of all the characters in the story of Peter and the Wolf. animated film (1946). Why do you think the composer chose the instruments he did for each of the characters? Can you re-tell the story that 8 the orchestra performs?

of a Q. What’s the difference between a jet Anatomy airplane and a trumpet? A xylophone is made of wood. A. About three decibels. If it’s metal, it’s a Glockenspiel. SYMPHONY Timpani Trumpets It takes 84 musicians – almost more than you can shake a baton at – Q. What’s the difference between an to produce the KSO’s great sound. You’ll often see more or fewer oboe and a bassoon? people on stage at a given performance, depending on Trombones A. You can hit a baseball farther with what instruments the piece calls for. Percussion a bassoon. Just like athletes, musicians wear uniforms and “play” for a living – and it can be hard to tell who’s who without a scorecard. Here’s a quick guide to your KSO, along with some classic jokes French Horns A tuba weighs about 25 lbs. from the musicians. Harp Second Violins Piano Clarinets Oboe players make their own Q. What’s the range of a violin? reeds, whittling them from moistened strips of cane. A. About twenty yards, if you have a good arm. Tuba The largest double bass that ever Piccolo existed was almost 16 feet tall and was built to celebrate the Flutes Cincinnati Music Festival in 1889. Bassoons

There are more violins in the orchestra than any other single instrument. The Violas violins play in two different groups, with the first violins playing the highest- Oboes pitched part and the second violins playing the second-highest.

Basses Violin strings were originally made of catgut, but now are made of metal. First Violins Cellos

Design and text by Q. What’s the difference between In the 1600s, some conductors kept the beat by a bass and a cello? banging a large wooden staff against the ground. Lucas Richman, Music Director and Conductor A. The bass burns longer. Now, conductors use a light, wooden baton. of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Meet the Performers and Musicians

Soprano Melisa Barrick Baldwin lives in South Knoxville with her family. They all love music so much Today’s Symphony Orchestra varies in size from city to city, that everyone plays an instrument: Mr. Baldwin and Jack but usually has about 100 players. Orchestras are different (age 15) play cello, while Ella (age 11) and Poppy (age 6) from bands because they include strings instruments. The play violin. Ms. Baldwin plays piano, but loves to sing string section is the biggest section, with about 60 people. The even more! She grew up in Indiana but went to school in woodwind section is made up of twelve or more players, and Maryland, where she learned to sing opera, musical the- the brass section usually has about ten. Finally, the number of ater and early music from the Renaissance period. Every percussion players changes a great deal, depending on the summer she travels with her family to music festivals where she gets to amount of percussion parts used in different pieces. perform in chamber music recitals, which means she sings with a small group of instrumentalists. Many of the works she performs were written The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra sheet on page 9 of by composers who are still living, and whose music is called "New Music" this guide shows how you will see the Knoxville Symphony within the classical music tradition. But her very favorite way to sing is Orchestra seated on stage when you come to the concert. The with an orchestra, which is one of the reasons she's so excited to be a part players sit in a semicircle facing the conductor, with the strings of the KSO's Very Young People's Concerts! Ms. Baldwin practices daily in front. The woodwinds are usually behind the strings, and in a room with a big piano and lots of plants, and is kept company by her behind them are the brass. Percussion players normally sit at family's three dogs: one very large, one very small, and one who is of the back of the orchestra, on the right and left corners of the medium size. They all like to sing along. semicircle.

Lisa Hall McKee is the artistic director of GO! Now let’s meet some members of our very own KSO! Contemporary Dance Works, a contemporary ballet and modern dance ensemble. Lisa studied classical

ballet, jazz and modern dance while performing with s to the New Repertory Dance Company. She has toured an sici nd the southeastern United States, performing concerts u r a al m he sic and giving lecture demonstrations at universities, SO fat u K nd m theatres and schools. Lisa performed with the Oak Ridge se ra the he G in Civic Ballet for four years, dancing the lead character role in Coppelia, the r t of ls Snow Queen and the Spanish dancer in The Nutcracker, and was principal fo ts a en ar im dancer for the ballet Cinderella. Since opening her school in 1991, Lisa ist e p an L th he has had numerous students accepted to prestigious dance programs in the y f t lf. pla o e Wo United States. Lisa is a recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award given e and th om Peter by the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. s ry sto 10

Meet the Performers and Musicians

One of the newest members of the Gary Sperl has played clarinet with the KSO for nearly 40 years. He Knoxville Symphony Orchestra is has also played all over the world—as a soloist, with jazz ensembles Aaron Apaza. As you can see he plays and with other orchestras. Gary is retired from teaching at The bassoon, and in our concert you will University of Tennessee, but he still enjoys helping young people hear him as Peter’s grandfather. Aaron learn to play the clarinet. Each summer he goes to Africa to teach, grew up in South Dakota but he has and to work for the conservation of the mpingo trees that grow in lived in several cities in the United Tanzania. The hard, black wood States while studying or performing as a from mpingo trees is used to make professional musician. Before coming to clarinets for professional clarinet Knoxville he was a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, players like Gary. When he is not the New World Symphony in Miami and the Colorado Symphony. making music, you might find Gary He has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, running marathons or enjoying his the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Maine Coon cats. How fitting that in Baltimore Symphony. this concert he gets to play a cat!

Claire Chenette grew up in Iowa, lived in Los Although French horn player Jeffery Whaley Angeles, and moved to Knoxville last year to play will play the part of the wolf in our musical sto- oboe with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. ry, he is actually a very nice guy! When he is After many years of hard study and practice not buzzing his lips into a conch shell or a aimed at making her instrument sing rather shofar (sheep’s horn) to show the origins of than quack, during our concert she will get to brass instruments, he might be playing his revel in her inherent quackiness as the duck homemade French horn, constructed of plastic in "Peter and the Wolf." Claire can often be tubing and an oil funnel (enhanced by his own spotted riding around Knoxville on her bike mouthpiece for easy buzzing). Like the other musicians featured on since that helps our planet and makes it easier this page, Jeffery has traveled throughout the United States to study, for her to find parking. In her free time, perform and teach. He has achieved recognition as a finalist and Claire likes to hike in the mountains and play winner of several horn competitions sponsored by the International folk music. You might even catch her playing Horn Society. One thing that’s different about Jeffery, the oboe barefoot in the woods! though, is that he is from Tennessee, having grown up in Sevierville!

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Perform Activities and Lessons

Musical Stories Draw Your Own Comic Strip Play the excerpts from the CD that was sent with this The Marriage of Figaro tells a silly story in which there are Teacher’s Guide. Then, help your students Create, many surprises and the characters play tricks on one or Respond according to grade level and to which another. At the end of the story, there is a happy ending. excerpts are played.  Play the Overture to The Marriage of Figaro. Guided listening ideas can be found on pages 4-8, victorious, excited…)  Have students create comic strip panels while listening and here are more suggestions—you’ll come up with to the different sections of the overture. your own, too! run, creep, dance…)  When there is a change in the music, students should  How did the music make you feel? (happy, sad, nervous, change the story panel.

 Comic strip story panels include drawings, movement  What did it make you want to do? (relax, march, jump, [Play it again and allow them to marks, sound effects (Pow!), etc. move to the music. Or, they can clap rhythms or play  Student’ panels may be continuous or they instruments with the music.] may create individual story panels for each  Were there words to the music? Did you hear a story? section of the music. [Have your students re-tell the story, act it out, create soundminor effects, keys, intervals, or improvise tempo, rhythms orchestration…) and/or melodies to —adapted from Dynamic Surprises lesson plan tell the story…or they can make up their own story.] from Carnegie Hall

 What instruments did you hear? How did the compos- er use them to help tell a story?

 Which compositional elements help tell a story? (major/ Don’t forget to teach the song “Music Can  Which music do you like best? Why? Make Your Life Complete” to your students so they can sing it with the orchestra at the concert! 12

Activities and Lessons

Characters from Peter and the Wolf On the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Website Match each character to the instrument that plays its 1. A full page version of the matching activity to sound in Sergei Prokofiev’s musical story. Can you the left name each instrument? 2. The story of Peter and the Wolf, as it will be read by Picardy Penguin at the concert. You may choose instead to read it from a library book, or even play a recording. But be sure to familiarize your students with the story before the concert!

Go to www.knoxvillesymphony.com Then click on ‘Education & Community’ Then, on ‘Very Young People’s Concerts

Character Acrostics Have students work with a partner, or a larger team,

to create an acrostic for a Peter and the Wolf character of their choice. Example: WOLF might be W=wise / O=old / L=lean / F=fast

Check out these Peter and the Wolf lesson plans (http://www.classicsforkids.com/teachers/ lessonplans_prokofiev.asp) from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony’s Keeping Score lesson plans (http://www.keepingscore.org/education/lessonplanlibrary (Venn Diagram for Peter 13 and theWolf and Visualizing Visualizing))

Activities and Lessons

Core Standards addressed by the concert and/or the activities in this Teacher’s Guide:

MU:Cr1.1.PreKa MU:Cr1.1.Ka MU:Cr1.1.1a MU:Cr1.1.2a Creating MU:Cr2.1.PreKa MU:Cr2.1.Ka MU:Cr2.1.1a MU:Cr2.1.2a

MU:Pr4.1.PreKa MU:Pr4.1.Ka MU:Pr4.1.1a MU:Pr4.1.2a Performing MU:Pr4.3.PreKa MU:Pr4.3.Ka MU:Pr4.3.1a MU:Pr4.3.2a

MU:Re7.1.PreKa MU:Re7.1.Ka MU:Re7.1.1a MU:Re7.1.2a Responding MU:Re7.2.PreKa MU:Re7.2.Ka MU:Re7.2.1a MU:Re7.2.2a MU:Re8.1.PreKa MU:Re8.1.Ka MU:Re8.1.1a MU:Re8.1.2a

Connecting Teachers are encouraged to design their own post-concert activities to address the “MU:Cn” category.

Additional Resources

 www.knoxvillesymphony.com/education-community/education-links  www.classicsforkids.com  http://www.dsokids.com/media/10709/2006-Play-Me-a-Story-Teacher-Guide.pdf 14

For their generous support of our Very Young People’s Concerts, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges: The Boyd Family Steven Karidoyanes, Guest Conductor City of Knoxville Presents Knox County

Lura-Lee G. and William E. Lange Foundation MacLean Foundation Let’s Tell A Story! Rotary Club of Knoxville Tennessee Arts Commission Very Young People’s Concerts UT Federal Credit Union Knoxville: January 28, 2016

Maryville: January 29, 2016

Special thanks to our Partners in Education:

 Sara Cummings, Professional Development Specialist, Choral Music, Knox County Schools

 Tracy Ward, Sequoyah Elementary School, for her assistance with this Teacher’s Guide  KSO Education Advisory Council

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Presents

Let’s Tell A Story!

Music Can Make Your Life Complete Lucas Richman

The Birthday Present Lucas Richman

Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang A. Mozart

Playground Escapades Lucas Richman

Blow the Man Down Traditional/arr. L. Richman

Flight of the Bumblebee Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Peter and the Wolf Sergei Prokofiev

Music Can Make Your Life Complete Lucas Richman

Audience Job Description

Acknowledgements

Please help make this a good performance by being a good audience: For their generous support of our Very Young People’s

 Be quiet as the lights dim and the concert Concerts, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra gratefully begins. acknowledges:

 Clap when the concertmaster enters to

lead the orchestra in tuning. The Boyd Family  Clap when the conductor enters to begin the concert. The Lura-Lee G. and  Clap to welcome any soloists during the William E. Lange concert. Foundation  Remember that the orchestra is in the same room with you, not in a movie or on TV. If you talk or make other noises, they can hear you. If you get up and leave in middle of the concert, they can see you. Please be quiet and still so the musicians can play their best for you and everyone can enjoy the concert.  Watch the conductor during the concert. When he puts his hands down and turns to face Special thanks to our Partners in Education: the audience, the piece is  Sara Cummings, Professional Development Specialist, Choral finished and you may clap to Music, Knox County Schools let the musicians know you liked it.  Tracy Ward, Sequoyah Elementary School, for her assistance with this Teacher’s Guide  KSO Education Ad visory Council 17

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