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Teacher Workbook TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from Jessica Nalbone .................................................................................2 Director of Education, North Carolina Symphony Information about the 2012/13 Education Concert Program ............................3 North Carolina Symphony Education Programs .................................................4 Author Biographies ..............................................................................................6 Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) .......................................................................................7 Oriental Festival March from Aladdin Suite, Op. 34 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) ..........................................................15 Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K.543, Mvt. I or III (Movements will alternate throughout season) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) ..............................................................................28 “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk” from Children’s Corner, Suite for Orchestra Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) ..................................................................33 Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) ...............................................................................44 “Dance of the Young Girls” from The Rite of Spring Loonis McGlohon (1921-2002) & Charles Kuralt (1924-1997) ..........................52 “North Carolina Is My Home” Richard Wagner (1813-1883) ..............................................................................61 Overture to Rienzi Concert Etiquette Student Contract ..................................................................67 “Your Elephant, The Orchestra”.........................................................................68 A story to be read before your concert North Carolina Symhony Seating Chart ............................................................69 Bibliography and Selected Sources ...................................................................70 Selections are listed in program order. AUTHORS Amanda Watson Bailey, Barwell Road Renaissance Elementary School, Raleigh, NC Linda Musten, Yates Mill Elementary School, Raleigh, NC Jana Powell, Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School, Kinston, NC Christine White, Banks Elementary School, Kinston, NC 2012/13 TEACHER WORKBOOK • 1 Information ABOUT THE 2012/13 EDUCATION CONCERT PROGRAM Education Concert Workshop Dear Friends and Colleagues, The best way to prepare for your concert is to attend the Education Concert Workshop each August. This six-hour As we commemorate the 80th Anniversary Season of the North Carolina Symphony, we also honor more than workshop features presentations by the authors of the student and teacher handbooks, including live demonstrations of recommended activities and lesson plans For your registration fee of $30.00, you will receive a copy of both hand- seventy years of unique education concert programs heard by millions of North Carolina students. The selections books, a CD of the concert program and printouts of all PowerPoint presentations. You will be treated to lunch and for this year’s program aim to not only instill a love of classical music in young people, but also to represent our entered to win prizes from North Carolina Symphony sponsors. All who participate will also receive a certificate that orchestra’s venerable educational history. they can use to obtain 0.5 CEU credit from their district. This year’s workshop takes place on Wednesday, August 15, 2012, from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm at Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, NC. We would like to thank this year’s authors: Christine White and Jana Powell of Lenoir County Schools and Linda If you are unable to attend the workshop in August, you can view it online. The North Carolina Symphony Educa- Musten and Amanda Watson Bailey of Wake County Public Schools. Each of these individuals contributed tion Concert Workshop will be videotaped and made available on a private classroom site. To download these videos you must register, after which you will be sent the same materials as all of the workshop participants and be given a countless hours of their time (and much of their summer vacations) to creating these curriculum guides and unique username and password to log in to the classroom site. Upon completion of your online workshop you will be preparing for our August Education Concert Workshop, for which we are truly thankful. issued a certificate that can be used to obtain 0.5 CEU credit from your district. The cost of registration is just $30.00. You can access these resources anytime throughout the school year. These books are tools for preparing your students to attend their North Carolina Symphony Education Concert. It is our intention that the Education Concert experience supports your goal of promoting music as a core sub- ject that is essential to North Carolina’s curriculum. I encourage everyone involved with the Education Concerts “North Carolina Is My Home” to take just five minutes to complete our surveys when they are sent to you. The information you provide on At your concert, the conductor will ask everyone to stand and sing “North Carolina Is My Home” with the orchestra. He or she will cue the students after a brief introduction, when it is time to start singing. Although we encourage stu- that survey will help us evaluate the success of our programs and make changes for the following seasons. We dents to memorize the lyrics, we understand that this is not always possible. At your discretion, decide whether or not value your opinions and we put your ideas into action. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us! to bring song sheets or books from which your students can read. If you do choose to bring the lyrics, please be sure students take with them all materials they bring into the auditorium as a courtesy to our venues’ clean-up crews. We are grateful for all that you do to enrich the lives of students across North Carolina. And remember, it’s a treat for our orchestra and conductors to hear your students singing. Encourage your students to sing loudly so our musicians can hear them! Please note that a recording of “North Carolina Is My Home” is not included on the Education Concert CD. Jessica Nalbone Director of Education, North Carolina Symphony Playing on Recorders At your concert, you may notice other groups playing the song on recorders. Playing the song “North Carolina Is My Home” on recorders is an opportunity we extend to all schools groups that attend and is completely optional. How- ever, if you are planning to have a student group perform on instruments, here are a few things to know: • North Carolina Symphony Education staff members need to know that you plan to perform on recorders before CONTACT the North Carolina Symphony Education Department your concert. Please contact Jessica Nalbone, Director of Education, at [email protected] or 919.789.5461 or ask whoever is coordinating your concert trip to do so. Performing groups will be seated in a special section and Jessica Nalbone 3700 Glenwood Ave., Suite 130 acknowledged from the stage, so it is critical that we know you are preparing to play. Director of Education Raleigh, NC 27612 North Carolina Symphony 919.789.5461 Office • Schools will play on their own, unless you make arrangements with another school to perform together. 919.781.6066 Fax • We may have too many individual groups performing on instruments at one concert, in which case you may be [email protected] asked to perform with another school. • Any groups performing on recorders will do so before the orchestra plays “North Carolina Is My Home.” RECORDINGS of the Education Concert Program • This opportunity is open to other instruments such as violins, Orff instruments, boomwhackers, etc. Recordings of the pieces heard on the Education Concert Program will be available for CD purchase on the North Carolina Symphony Education website: www.ncsymphony.org/educationprograms. • Please remind your students, whether they are performing or not, to be courteous and respectful of other students’ performances at their concert. 2 • NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY 2012/13 TEACHER WORKBOOK • 3 Competitions and Awards MAXINE SWALIN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING MUSIC EDUCATOR: an award and $1,000 cash prize is given annually in honor of Maxine Swalin to an outstanding music teacher in North Carolina who makes a lasting dif- ference in the lives of students of all backgrounds, positively affects his or her community in a lasting way and is a EDUCATION PROGRAMS OVERVIEW role model among music educators. Individuals are nominated by their peers and colleagues, who write letters of support on their behalf. JOSEPH M. BRYAN AND KATHLEEN PRICE YOUTH CONCERTO COMPETITION: an annual competition open Programs For Elementary School Students and Teachers to musicians between the ages of 10 and 21 in both junior and senior divisions with a cash prize awarded to the first and second place winners in each division. The first place winner of the senior division is offered an opportu- EDUCATION CONCERTS: approximately 45 full-orchestra concerts given annually throughout the state to audi- nity to perform his or her concerto movement with the North Carolina Symphony in an upcoming season. Nearly ences of third through fifth graders. Teachers are given printed materials with a specifically designed curriculum 100 students audition annually. for the music education program at the start of each school year. YOUNG STRINGS OF THE TRIANGLE: provides free private string lessons