A Celebration of Great Classics

 

You are invited to join your orchestra on Feb. 10 for a special concert featuring 

great classical masterpieces. Links for preview listening below. 

Tickets at https://www.myosu.org

Poster design by Rollan Fell, Print Shoppe

Rossini's La Gazza Ladra Overture (1817)

This opera also known as the Thieving Magpie. The melodrama is about a magpie that steals a silver spoon and a coin that creates great drama in the opera, but all ends well. The overture opens with snare drums setting a sombre tone, but then moves to a charming and happy melody with a lot of energy.

 Preview the Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWz_5V1k8D8&t=1sOSU is preparing the great Mozart Symphony #40 for our Feb. 10 concert. Thanks to Xun Sun for finding this exceptional performance. 

Listen at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sGqkMU-mGQ&feature=emb_logo

The absolutely gorgeous Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus by Ralph Vaughan Williams is also on the program. This piece features the strings and includes English and Irish folk music which you will also recognize as the melody for How Great Thou Art.

Link to preview music

(Children over six welcome with adult supervision. No babies please because the concert is being recorded.)

Music Activities for Students

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten features instrument introductions. Here is an activity for students utilizing this music

"We are excited to share an open beta of the non-Flash version of our interactive, online game based on Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. This game takes young students on a listening adventure, exploring the different sections of the orchestra. Players can register in the game to save their progress." Carnegie Hall introduction to instruments

Resources for Young Musicians from Carnegie Hall This link includes songwriting ideas as well as instrumental resources. 

Drumming for fun and therapy from the Symphony magazine

Classical Kids link: Many stories with music