HVP Young People’s Concert
“I Hear America Singing” Walt Whitman

TEACHER STUDY GUIDE

 (Snow date: March 19)
Grades 3 -6
Running-time is approximately 1 hour. 

We hope you will join us for this original concert. The interactive concert and hands on residency activities will engage your students through creative exploration and active musical participation. Developing your students’ natural musical competence will assist them in becoming successful hearers, and awaken their interest in the many ways music plays out in school learning and life.
“Whenever we can draw upon our students limited life experiences and have them use their imagination – great things are bound to happen.” Mary Mullaney/Band Teacher/Morse & WW Smith, Poughkeepsie, NY
2015 - The repertoire will include:
Copland - Buckaroo Holiday
Ives - Variations on America
Bernstein - Overture to Candide
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "New World"
Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever
Plus:
• A solo performance by the winner of the Virtuoso in Progress Competition
• Performance of the composition written by local students who participated in the Classroom to Concert Program.

Before attending the concert we strongly recommend participating in Classroom to Concert, a program designed to give your students the ultimate musical experience. Call Kay Churchill to arrange a visit to your school at 473-5288 ext 106
• Juilliard trained teaching artist, Katie Kresek, will work in classrooms to prepare students to successfully hear the marvelous pieces and thus feel the joy and revelation that makes people lifelong lovers of classical music. In the classroom, students are involved in musical activities that engage them in the artistic issues of each piece. Katie will work with up to 32 students per session and up to 4 sessions per day.