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Young People's Concert Series
for 5th Grade Students

2006-2007 Season
American Landmarks and Landscapes
Martin and Edith B. Stein
Young People’s Concerts Benefactors
  Wachovia

Developed by Guest Conductor, Aaron Kula
Educational Curriculum Coordinator, Olga Vazquez

October 17 & 18, 2006 at Boca Raton High School
10:15 – 11.15 a.m. & 11:45 – 12:45 p.m.

The musical selections in this program are divided into three main sections: Music from New England, Orchestral Jazz and Negro Spirituals, and Mambo in America. Each section makes up a different immigrant group from Europe, Africa, and Latin America, respectively. These groups are known to have greatly influenced “American” music as it is known today.

Young People's Concert Series
I. Music from New England
      
Hoe-Down from Rodeo (Movement IV)
  Aaron Copland
Country Band March
  Charles Ives
The Washington Post March
  John Philip Sousa 

II. Orchestral Jazz and Negro
     Spirituals
      
Symphony #9 in E minor, Op. 95
  (From the New World),
Largo (Movement II)
  Antonín Dvořák
Rag Time Dance from The Red Back Book
(orchestrated by Gunther Schuller)
  Scott Joplin

III. Mambo in America
Cuban Overture
  George Gershwin
Three Dance Episodes from On The Town
  Leonard Bernstein
I. The Great Lover
III. Times Square

Call to schedule a program 1-888-426-5577



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To schedule any 5th grade student program call 1-888-426-5577.