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2024-2025 IN SCHOOL SYMPHONY CONCERTS

2024 5TH GRADE CONCERTS


2024-2025 IN SCHOOL SYMPHONY CONCERTS

FULL ORCHESTRA CONCERT: ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY

Come discover the many sounds an orchestra creates! Compare and contrast how different music can sound when it is written by composers from different time periods and countries. While listening to pieces from Russia, Germany, China, Spain, and Mexico we explore musical elements such as melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics, and tempo that are created by the 20 different instruments that make up an orchestra.

Concert Program

Click on the names of the composers to access brief biographies. Click on the titles of the musical works to listen to recordings of the music.

Corresponding Teacher Materials

Learn more about what an orchestra is with the following presentation. Click on links to hear what each instrument sounds like and learn about some of the musicians in the Utah Symphony that play these instruments.

The Instruments of the Orchestra Presentation

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY

Listen to music from all around the world! This concert features music by composers from England, India, Austria, United Sates of America, and Argentina.

Come discover the many sounds an orchestra creates! Compare and contrast how different music can sound when it is written by composers from different time periods and countries. While listening to pieces from Russia, China, Spain, and Mexico we explore musical elements such as melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics, and tempo that are created by the 20 different instruments that make up an orchestra. 

Concert Program

Click on the names of the composers to access brief biographies. Click on the titles of the musical works to listen to recordings of the music.

Corresponding Teacher Materials

Learn more about what an orchestra is with the following presentation. Click on links to hear what each instrument sounds like and learn about some of the musicians in the Utah Symphony that play these instruments.

The Instruments of the Orchestra Presentation

MUSIC CORE CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS

The Utah Symphony’s In School Symphony Concerts provide students with the opportunity to respond to quality musical works and quality performances as well as studying the musical influences that come from living in different countries and at different times.

Attending the concert and assessing it afterwards allows students to experience elements of Standards 1-4 in the Respond Strand of the Secondary Instrumental Music Core Curriculum:

  1. Respond to a musical performance by identifying the musical elements within a piece and in a given context, discus their effect on both listener and performers, and exhibit appropriate performance demeanor and audience concert etiquette.
  2. Consider, with guidance, how the use of musical elements helps predict the composer’s possible intent.
  3. Identify and describe, with guidance, the musical and structural elements that contribute to a quality musical work.
  4. Identify and describe, with guidance, the technical and musical skills evident in a quality performance.

2024 5TH GRADE CONCERTS

“HEY, BRAVI!”

This year’s Utah Symphony 5th Grade Concerts feature “Bravi,” a voice-assistant character that personifies Abravanel Hall, who will guide students through an exploration of a variety of classical works. “Bravi,” along with a pair of young hosts, will narrate a concert of music by composers from all around the world, many who are living. Conducted by Assistant Conductor, Matthew Straw.

Concert Program

Click on the names of the composers to access brief biographies. Click on the titles of the musical works to listen to recordings of the music.

TORMIS: Overture No. 2 for Orchestra
FRANK: “Mestizo Waltz” from Three Latin American Dances
WATKINS: “Soul of Remembrance” from Five Movements in Color
HISAISHI: “The Legend of Ashitaka” from Princess Mononoke
HISAISHI: “Merry Go Round of Life” from Howl’s Moving Castle
BEETHOVEN: III. Scherzo from Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, “Eroica”
TCHAIKOVSKY: II. Andante Cantabile con Alcuna Licenza from Symphony No. 5 in E minor
STRAVINSKY: Finale from The Firebird Suite

Corresponding Teacher Materials

Help your students prepare for their trip to Abravanel Hall with this short presentation that covers basic etiquette, facts about Abravanel Hall, and what to expect at a Utah Symphony concert.

This presentation can be supplemented with a video tour of Abravanel Hall, provided by Salt Lake County Arts.