Elementary School

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Virtual School Concerts

In the 2022-23 season, teachers can access concerts, curriculum guides, and meet the instrument videos throughout the school year to share with students.

Virtual school resources are free for all educators in the United States; registration is required to access.

VIRTUAL CONCERT 1: Peter and the Wolf

Join celebrated spoken-word artist Gil Sotu and San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare on a journey introducing the instruments of the orchestra. Vivid illustrations enhance the sumptuous music in Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite - the composer's musical telling of a classic fairy tale. Finally, students will help Peter and his animal friends capture a wolf to bring back to the San Diego Zoo in Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

PROGRAM

Recorded at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park on October 23, 2021

Rafael Payare, conductor
Gil Sotu, host
San Diego Symphony Orchestra

The concert begins with a special introduction to each instrument in the orchestra, then...

MAURICE RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite (16')

  1. Sleeping Beauty (2')
  2. Tom Thumb (3')
  3. Empress of the Pagodas (3')
  4. Conversations of Beauty and the Beast (4')
  5. The Enchanted Garden (4')

SERGE PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (25')

Curriculum Guide

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VIRTUAL CONCERT 2: Celebration of the Earth

Planet Earth is a miraculous place. San Diegans are surrounded by the unique beauty of our region, where the ocean, desert and mountains meet, and where two countries share not just a border but also a delicate ecosystem. Our planet offers abundance and sustenance for all human life, but its fragile balance is increasingly threatened.

“Celebration of the Earth” documents a single day: Morning, Afternoon and Night through the sounds of three unique composers (Haydn, Debussy and Boulanger), student speakers and images of the Baja California region.

Virtual school resources are free for all educators in the United States; registration is required to access.

PROGRAM

Originally filmed and produced in June 2021 for the San Diego Symphony’s “To The Earth” virtual festival.

Rafael Payare, conductor
Steven Schick, conductor
Gil Sotu, host
San Diego Symphony Orchestra

Student speakers: Nina Asnani, High Tech Middle Media Arts (HTMMA); Ainhoa Leal, Grossmont College; Sabrina Webster, San Diego State University; Roma Snodgrass, Roosevelt Middle School; Annie Phan, University of California, San Diego

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Le Matin (Morning)
(Rafael Payare, conductor)

  1. Adagio – Allegro (6')
  2. Adagio – Andante – Adagio (8')
  3. Menuet (5')
  4. Allegro (5')

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun (10')
(Steven Schick, conductor)

LILI BOULANGER: D’un soir triste (Of a Sad Evening) (12')

The Moonlight And The Melody (4')
Written and performed by Gil Sotu – A San Diego Symphony-commissioned work

Curriculum Guide

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