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The Polar Express BSO Midweek Concert The Polar Express Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductor Ken Lam Baritone Robert Cantrell The Maryland State Boychoir Still Images from The Polar Express The Polar Express Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10am: Tiny Tots PreK-K 11:30am: Prime Time Grades 1-3 Friday, December 4, 2015 10am: Tiny Tots PreK-K 11:30am: Prime Time Grades 1-3 Table of Contents Welcome Letter, Teachers’ Guide Information ………………………….… 1 The Polar Express: Snapshot for Teachers and Students ..……………... 3 Track One: Winter Holidays………..…………………………………….……….. 7 Music, History, English Language Arts Track Two: Train and Winter Songs.. …..………………………………..…… 9 Music, STEAM Track Three: Storybook Singing …..……………………………………………. 14 Music, English Language Arts, History, Visual Arts, Drama Track Four: Make a Travel Commercial...…………………………………… 15 Music, English Language Arts, Drama, Visual Arts, History Track Five: Movement Games..………………………………………………….. 17 Music, Drama, STEAM Track Six: Drawing the Story………………………………………………………. 20 Visual Arts, English Language Arts, STEAM Track Seven: Designing the Menu……….. ……………………….………...…. 21 Visual Arts, English Language Arts, STEAM Centennial Activities ……………………….….……………………..…………..….. 23 Special Thanks ……………………………………..………………..……….….….... 30 Welcome to the BSO Midweeks! On behalf of the Associate Conductor for Education, Ken Lam, the members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the BSO Education Department, I am delighted to welcome you to our 2015-2016 Midweek Concert Series. This season we celebrate the BSO Centennial: 100 years of extraordinary orchestral music in Baltimore. With the BSO Midweek Concert series as the longest running education initiative at the BSO (running since February 16, 1924), and the first regular educational concert series of any orchestra in the country, we are thrilled to have you join us to celebrate this momentous occasion here at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. This Centennial Midweek Concert Season we present four concert themes: two for younger students (The Polar Express and Peter and the Wolf) and two for older students (Icarus at the Edge of Time and All About Sports). For the first time ever in the history of the BSO we are offering concerts for High School Students with special presentations of Icarus at the Edge of Time. Two of these concert themes have been hand-selected especially for this season to celebrate our Centennial. Icarus at the Edge of Time celebrates you, our future audiences, and our exciting new Arts-Integrated, STEAM-Activated approach to relevant, interactive and interconnected concerts. Peter and the Wolf celebrates the BSO’s tradition of bringing live music to student audiences, with Prokofiev’s timeless tale and engaging music. About this Guide On the next pages you will find The Polar Express Teachers’ Guide, written by a highly skilled group of Maryland educators with specialism in music, drama, science, English/Language Arts and visual arts, led by extraordinary award-winning curriculum writer and editor, Richard McCready. At the start of the guide is a “Snapshot” of your concert experience. This will give you a sense of what to expect in the concert, along with some thoughts about the various curricular connections, and music we suggest you experience in the classroom before the performance. This is also where you can find the listing of all the specific curriculum standards that are supported by the concert and by the activities. Beyond the Snapshot pages you will find a variety of activities, organized as “Train Tracks” to signify the various directions that you can explore in order to prepare for this concert. Each Track may be used in whichever order you wish. We have also highlighted the various cross-curricular links that align with each Track so that you may jump to areas that are of particular interest to you and your students. We hope that your students try at least one prior to coming to the concert so they can make the most of their live experience at the Meyerhoff. Each activity is written to the student and encourages their natural sense of creativity and exploration. They will be able to read the activity pages, or you will be able to read the activities with them. Not all of the activities are specifically musical. Some are scientific, some are movement games, some employ and encourage art skills, and some involve storytelling and role-play. You best know your students, their capabilities and interests. You should encourage students to try the activities that you feel most appropriate for them and for your classroom. Encourage other teachers in your building to try some of the activities as well. 1 Share & Connect Most importantly, this year we have designed our guides as a mere starting point for exploration, with the essential piece being the work that is created by the student, for the student, and then presented to us here at the BSO. We can’t wait to see where these ideas might take your students and all the inspired, arts-integrated work they will produce in the classroom. We will aim to post this material on our website to inspire other students and teachers. We may even incorporate it into the concert experience, both this year and beyond. If you wish to share any materials with us at the BSO, please send them to [email protected]. Be sure to let us know how we may acknowledge the creators of the work. If you wish to send us materials for our internal use, please do be sure to specify which works may not be posted on our website. We promise to read every email, enjoy every art piece, listen to every composition, and watch every video. We hope that you will also check back on our website to share in the works of others. We hope you enjoy this guide, your explorations that are yet to come, the concert experience, and sharing your creative work with us. See you in December, and be sure to also check out our other Midweek Concerts this season: All About Sports and Peter & the Wolf! Warmly, Annemarie Guzy Director of Education Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2 The Polar Express: Snapshot for Teachers and Students The Story The Polar Express is a timeless children’s book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. In the story, a young boy is taken to the North Pole on a train called The Polar Express. There are many other children on the train and many wonderful treats to eat. The boy meets Santa and is handpicked to receive the first gift of Christmas. Santa gives the boy a bell, which he places in the pocket of his robe. On the train ride home, the boy finds he has lost the bell, but on Christmas morning, the bell is found in a mysterious small package under the tree. The boy and his sister ring the bell and hear its beautiful sound, but their parents cannot hear the bell and think that it is broken. The Concert The Polar Express is not only a book; it has also been made into a movie, a video game, and a version for symphony orchestra. The version of The Polar Express that you will hear at the Meyerhoff is a setting of Chris Van Allsburg’s story for orchestra with a sung narrator and children’s choir, composed by Robert Kapilow. Hearing a story sung rather than read by a narrator will probably be a very new experience for students, and we encourage you to listen to the music before the concert. The score is totally delightful and enjoyable, but children will benefit more from the concert if they can listen to it before arriving at the Meyerhoff. It is worthwhile to note that the music by Robert Kapilow (the version you will hear in the concert) is different from the music heard in the film with Tom Hanks. You should be able to find both versions on iTunes or Spotify, and it might be fun to compare the two versions, or perhaps even create your own version of some of the music in the classroom. The first piece of music on this concert will be Prokofiev’s “Troika” from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite. A troika is a traditional Russian horse-drawn sleigh. It’s easy to imagine the horses and the sleigh traveling across a snowy winter landscape, and this piece is often heard in movies and on TV to depict wintertime. We’ll open the concert with this piece to set a wintry mood. The concert will conclude with a quick trip around the world to explore different cultures in wintertime. For this musical adventure, the BSO will perform selections from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker including “Spanish Dance,” “Chinese Dance,” and “Trepak.” We’ll celebrate wintertime in these countries and highlight holiday traditions from across the world. We hope you enjoy these concerts about holiday celebrations, world travel, and wintertime festivities. The activities in this guide will be a wonderful way to prepare for this delightful experience. 3 Share & Connect! Each activity ends with a way to share your thoughts, compositions and creations with us at the BSO. We look forward to seeing and listening to what you send us! Useful Web Links Music of The Polar Express by Robert Kapilow o https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rob-kapilow-polar-express/id940215501 Preview of The Polar Express by Robert Kapilow (and also Kapilow’s Gertrude McFuzz ) o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs4MsDGob6w Music of “Troika” by Sergei Prokofiev from Lieutenant Kijé Suite o https://open.spotify.com/track/0vAuvor57Kozo21tSnfLGY o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsRDpsItq0 Music of The Nutcracker by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLoaMfinbU . “Spanish Dance (Chocolat)”: at 1:00:47 . “Chinese Dance (Le The)”: at 1:07:05 .
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