Education Concerts
Introducing great music to nearly half a million students since 1999

	Tuesday November 25th, 2008 A Musical Zoo! Recommended: Pre-K to Gr. 3 9:30 am | 11:15am | 12:45 pm Hamilton Place, Great Hall   directions
An excellent, highly engaging introduction to the instruments of the orchestra. Many pieces of music, old and new were inspired by animals and Maestro Brott and the National Academy perform them today, with live projections on the musicians projected on a large screen behind the orchestra. Students will learn about mood and colour and the images that music has the power to conjure up. We are thrilled to present the world premiere of Canadian composer Omar Daniel's brand new Canadian Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra based on variations of the French Canadian folk song – Alouette! Your students will ROAR with delight! Fujik Trad. Omar Daniel Poulenc Entrance of the Gladiators Alouette Singalong Alouette Variations:   A Canadian Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Babar the Elephant (with cuts) We Are the Orchestra audience interaction Concert Tickets: $5 per person
	Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 Beethoven & the Bully Recommended: Gr. 4 to 8 9:30 am | 11:15am | 12:45 pm Hamilton Place, Great Hall   directions
Jan Lisiecki | young Beethoven Peter Duschenes | Adult Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven - even this young genius who would grow up to become the world's most famous composer had to grapple with an issue that remains urgent even today: bullying. Be inspired as young Ludwig deals with the taunts and isolation bullying brings by escaping into his music and we hear some of the most famous works he composed in his career. Jan Lisiecki – the 13-year old Canadian piano prodigy performs and portrays young Ludwig as a student and Peter Duschesnes the older Beethoven. Maestro Brott leads us on Beethoven's journey and triumph over the bullies in his life and relates it even to his own life and how we can put an end to bullying in today's schoolyards and parks. This concert is a perfect marriage of music and a most important social issue. Book today! Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Mozart Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Prometheus Overture 7th Symphony Last Mov't Piano Sonata No. 3 Allegro Con Brio (1795) Piano Concerto C Major No. 21 K. 467 Mov't 2 (Elvira Madigan) Piano Concerto No. 2 Mov't 3 Third Symphony "Eroica" - Marcia Funebre (excerpt) 9th Symphony "Ode to Joy" sing-a long | recorders In partnership with KidsHelp Phone Concert Tickets: $5 per person

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2008 Brott Music Education Concerts meet Ontario's Curriculum Expectations in The Arts and Social Studies:

Kindergarten students will become aware of themselves as artists through engaging in a singalong of Beethoven's Ode to Joy during the concert

Grade 1 students will listen to and identify music from different cultures particularly the French-Canadian folk song "Alouette" and its variations

Grade 2 students will recognize a variety of sound sources through introduction to the instruments of the symphony orchestra

Grade 3 students will be able to use correctly the vocabulary and musical terminology for identifying the families of instruments in an orchestra

Grade 4 students will identify music from the culture and historical period specifically the Romantic period and the life and times of Ludwig van Beethoven

Grade 5 students will have the opportunity to read simple musical notation and perform on recorders or singalong to Beethoven's Ode to Joy with the National Academy Orchestra

Grade 6 students will have the opportunity to read and perform Beethoven's Ode to Joy and identify the concert's selection of music from the late Classical and early Romantic historical periods

Grade 7 students will be able to compare methods of conflict resolution using the subject of bullying in both the historical time of Beethoven's life and contemporary situations at home and in the school environment

Grade 8 students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of music and the issue of conflict resolution and bullying through visual art, language, creative writing, drama or presentation (eg. slide show)

* All students will be given a post-concert student response form appropriate to their grade. They will have the opportunity to communicate their response to the concert and music through drawing and creative writing.