Utah Symphony Goes to the Schools
Image caption: Utah Symphony at Hillcrest High School
Education is one of our top priorities at Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. Utah Symphony’s first school concerts of the year were Sept. 14 and 15 at Hillcrest High School. 4th grade students from both the Canyons and Jordan School Districts attended. This year’s program is called, “March to the Symphony.”
Image caption: Associate Conductor David Cho demonstrates how to march to the music
In addition to hearing a wedding march, a coronation march, a graduation march, and a funeral march, the students have the chance to stand up and march to John Philip Sousa, and clap along with Strauss Sr.’s Radtzky March – just like they do at the New Year’s concert with the Vienna Philharmonic each year.
One of the teachers at Sprucewood Elementary wrote about her class’s experience here. Want to know more about our excellent educational programs? Click here.
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September 22nd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Just curious… What songs/marches did they perform?
September 25th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
David Cho has selected a set of engaging marches. The premise is that listeners are usually surprised to hear the variety of sounds composers have titled as marches. When we think of a march, we usually think of music played in parades. This concert demonstrates the many occasions – celebratory and solemn – we use marches. It reminds us of the shared experiences and emotion which music can bring to our lives on these occasions. David’s excellent narration and use of orchestral excerpts opens the music up a little further for the students. And twice during the concert the students are enthusiastic participants: they march during the Thunderer March, and clap along to the Radetzky March.
John Williams March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sir William Walton Crown Imperial Coronation March
Felix Mendelssohn Wedding March from Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sir Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
John Philip Sousa The Thunderer March
Charles Gounod Funeral March of a Marionette
Johann Strauss, Sr. Radetzky March
Pyotr Ilyich Tchakovsky Symphony No. 6; III. Allegro molto vivace