Click here for the Concert MUSIC AROUND Playlist! THE WORLD: LATIN AMERICA Our Music for Families Your musical journey of Latin concert will take you on a America will include great wonderful journey of musical music inspired by the people styles from Latin America. and traditions of different Latin American countries, • You’ll hear music from such as some of our favorite Latin American composers. • MEXICO • You’ll hear some of the • BRAZIL many fantastic instruments • ARGENTINA used in Latin music. • PERU • You’ll move and groove and sway to some of the There’s a lot in store! many exciting rhythms of So pack your bags, Latin music. fasten your seatbelts, and get ready for your musical ride! On the following pages are some fun activities for you and your family, along with lots of interesting facts. Take a look at them before or after the concert. Print them out, and have fun! Latin America is the land mass that begins just south WHERE IS of the United States, and extends to the very end of the continent of South America. It’s a fantastic region LATIN AMERICA? that includes Mexico—the closest southern neighbor to the U.S.—as well as the region known as Central America, and all of the countries of South America, such as Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. UNITED STATES MEXICO THE BAHAMAS DOMINICAN CUBA REPUBLIC ATLANTIC BELIZE JAMAICA HAITI OCEAN HONDURAS GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA TRINIDAD GUYANA COSTA RICA VENEZUELA SURINAME PANAMA FRENCH GUIANA COLOMBIA ECUADOR PERU BRAZIL BOLIVIA PACIFIC OCEAN PARAGUAY CHILE ARGENTINA URUGUAY FALKLAND ISLANDS At the concert, you’ll hear music from these countries: • MEXICO • BRAZIL • PERU and • ARGENTINA. Find them on the map, and draw a circle around the name! HERE IS SOME OF THE GREAT MUSIC YOU’LL HEAR AT THIS CONCERT PONCE MÁRQUEZ VILLA-LOBOS Music from Concerto Conga del Fuego The Little Train of the South for and Danzon No. 2 of the Caipira Guitar and Orchestra Inspired Inspired Inspired by MEXICO by BRAZIL by MEXICO Our concert begins and The Little Train of the Caipira The guitar is a very important ends with music by Arturo is delightful music written instrument in the musical Márquez, one of the most by the Brazilian composer life of Mexico! The Mexican famous composers of Mexican Heitor Villa-Lobos. It portrays composer Manuel Ponce, who heritage living today. The the journey of a little steam wrote many wonderful pieces first sounds you’ll hear are locomotive chugging its of music for the guitar, was the exciting, driving rhythms way through the Brazilian asked to write a very special of Conga del Fuego—a countryside. Listen for the way work that would feature “fire dance.” It’s music of Villa-Lobos uses percussion the guitar playing with a celebration! You’ll be able instruments popular in Latin symphony orchestra. That’s to imagine large groups of America to depict the clanking exactly what he did, and merrymakers dancing and of the wheels on the track. he called it Concerto playing music in the streets! Midway through the music, of the South. It has you’ll hear the little train stop become one of More music by Arturo to pick up more passengers, the most famous Márquez comes back as the and then start up again! guitar concertos, grand finale of our concert, played all over and you’ll hear why. The final the world. piece is another kind of dance, a joyous Danzon. This music has it all! It’s energetic and joyous, and it gets more and more exciting right through the very last notes! FRANK MÉNDEZ The Mestizo Waltz Cucurrucucú PIAZZOLLA from Three Latin Paloma Libertango American Dances Inspired Inspired by MEXICO by ARGENTINA Inspired by PERU What a fun name: This graceful music is a dance and Cucurrucucú Paloma! called the tango. The tango CHILE is a very popular dance in It’s the name of a song written Argentina—in fact, it’s the The composer of this by the composer Tomás country’s national dance! To wonderful music, Gabriela Méndez that is famous all dance the tango, two people Lena Frank, was born in over Mexico and beyond. glide together across the Berkeley and lives right here It’s so famous that it has dance floor in a stylish and in the Bay Area. Her family been featured in a number elegant manner. The steps can heritage includes ancestors of movies. The title means be very smooth, or sometimes from Peru, and she has “cooing dove.” Paloma is the quick and dramatic. You’ll hear always had a love of Peruvian Spanish word for a type of a wonderful piece of tango music. Frank has visited Latin dove, and cucurrucucú is the music called Libertango, America many times and cooing sound the dove makes. written by Astor Piazzolla, loves writing music influenced Try saying it: Argentina’s most famous by Latin American culture. coo-coo-roo-coo-COO, composer of tangos. The Mestizo Waltz is a fun coo-coo-roo-coo-COO! piece that pays tribute to the mestizo—or mixed-race— music of the South American Pacific coast (Peru and Chile). Read a special message from GABRIELA LENA FRANK on the next page! Here’s a special message from GABRIELA LENA FRANK MY MUSIC INSPIRATION If you were a composer, what would you write a piece of music about? What would be your music inspiration? Composers on your Music for Families concert were inspired by many things: • Gabriela Lena Frank was inspired by Latin American culture. • Heitor Villa-Lobos was inspired by a train. • Manuel Ponce was inspired by the guitar. • Tomás Méndez was inspired by the cooing sounds of a dove. What’s the inspiration for YOUR music? It can be anything! It can be your home, a friend, a bridge, trees—anything you really like! MY INSPIRATION FOR THE MUSIC I WILL COMPOSE IS: DRAW IT! MY MUSIC INSPIRATION Take a picture of your drawing and share it to your friends! COLOR Here’s a map of Latin America. Maps usually show different colors for YOUR different countries, which makes it easier to WORLD! see each country’s boundaries. Your job is to be a cartographer—a special word for a map designer—and to add color to the map. Pull out your crayons, pens, or markers! Make the map as colorful as you wish! FOR AN EXTRA CHALLENGE: Try to make sure no two countries with a shared border have the same color. Expert cartographers always have bordering countries in two different colors. FOR A SUPER-DUPER EXTRA CHALLENGE: See how many countries you can identify, and write in the names! (Super-secret tip: You can refer back to the map of Latin America on page 2.) A S e ec e cr T o d The San Francisco Symphony wants to share a secret with you! Find out what it is by solving the riddles below. Then, transfer the letters that have numbers below to the right place in the SECRET CODE BOX! • The national dance of this country is the tango. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 8 12 • This is the largest country in South America. The composer Villa-Lobos wrote a fun piece about a little train running through it. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 11 4 • This Latin American country shares a border with the United States. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 1 5 • The composer Gabriela Lena Frank wrote a piece inspired by these two countries that lie on the western (Pacific) edge of South America. ___ ___ ___ ___ and___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 9 2 6 10 • This is the country we live in right now! ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 3 7 A S ecr eT c o d e B o x Your secret message from the San Francisco Symphony is: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 1 1 2 ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Your secret message from the San Francisco Symphony is: A PICTURE DICTIONARY OF LATIN AMERICAN PERCUSSION Percussion instruments are played by hitting, scraping, shaking, or rubbing. Here are some popular percussion instruments used in Latin American music: Castanets [cas-tah-NETS] Cajon [kah-HON] Two wooden shells that you Chekeré [sheh-keh-REH] A wooden box with a hole strike against each other to A large gourd (a type of on one side. You sit on the make a clacking sound. plant) that’s been hollowed top and hit the box with out, with a net of beads your hands. attached on the outside. You can hit the bottom with your hand and you can shake it. Claves [CLAH-vays] Two wooden sticks that you play by striking them against Guiro [GWEE-row] each other. A gourd (a type of plant) Conga [KOHN-gah] that’s been hollowed out, A tall drum that you hit on with notches carved on the the top with your hands. top. You play it by using a stick to scrape across the Maracas [mah-RAH-cahs] notches. Small gourds (a type of plant) filled with seeds, beads, or small stones. You play them by shaking to make rattling sounds. Tambourine [tam-boor-REEN] A small instrument you hit and shake to make rattling sounds.