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APPlause! Presents: Explore the Orchestra!
November 9, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
$5
APPlause K-12 Performing Arts Series at Appalachian State University presents: Explore the Orchestra!
Explore the Orchestra! is a fun and informative educational concert created and performed by the Western Piedmont Symphony under the direction of Maestro Matthew Troy. This concert reinforces essential standards from the K-8 NC Essential Standards in Music and will help enable students to recognize the different instrument families of the orchestra and how they produce sound. Students will have an opportunity to hear the individual instruments, the instrument families, and how they work together to create the magic of a full symphony orchestra.
RECOMMENDED FOR: Grades 3-8
PROGRAM
Symphony No. 5 (excerpt) – Ludwig van Beethoven
Romanian Folk Dances (excerpt) – Belá Bartók
Nimbus 2000 (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) – John Williams
Fanfare from La Peri – Paul Dukas
Comedian’s Galop – Dmitry Kabalevsky
Little Fugue in G minor – Johann Sebastian Bach / Lucien Cailliet
“Hoe-Down” from Rodeo – Aaron Copland
Main Title (from Star Wars) – John Williams
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