WHA M T AKES MUSIC

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1 WHAT MAKES MUSIC

2 NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY EDUCATION SUPPORTERS These concerts are made possible by a generous grant-in-aid from the State of North Carolina, Honorable Pat McCrory, Governor; Honorable Susan Kluttz, Secretary of Cultural Resources Education Sustainers ($100,000+) Education Benefactors ($50,000+) Education Patrons ($10,000+) The Bastian Family Charitable Foundation, William C. Ethridge Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The McLean Foundation, John William Pope Foundation, Wake County Education Partners ($1,000+) Alamance County Arts Council of Fayetteville and Cumberland County Bank of America The Harold H. Bate Foundation Big Rock Foundation The Borden Fund R. A. Bryan Foundation Thomas B. and Robertha K. Coleman Foundation Craven County Community Foundation Dr. Albert Joseph Diab Foundation The Dickson Foundation Foster Family Fund George Foundation Gipson Family Foundation Hanover Insurance Group The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. Iredell County Community Foundation Jones County Arts Council Kinston Community Council for the Arts The Kyser Foundation The Landfall Foundation, Inc. Foundation McGladrey LLP Orange County Arts Commission Dr. Emily Mann Peck in memory of Belle Haeseler Perlim Foundation George Smedes Poyner Foundation Prescott Family Foundation The Florence Rogers Charitable Trust The Rolander Family Foundation The Norman and Rose S. Shamberg Foundation Silverback Foundation Southern Bank Foundation State Auto Insurance Companies SunTrust Foundation The Travelers Companies, Inc. The Woman s Club of Raleigh Youths Friends Association Music Education Endowment Funds The Ruby and Raymond A. Bryan Foundation Fund The Mary Whiting Ewing Charitable Foundation Fund The Hulka Ensemble and Chamber Music Programs Fund The Janirve Foundation Fund The Ina Mae and Rex G. Powell Wake County Music Education Fund The Elaine Tayloe Kirkland Fund School System Supporters Carteret County Schools Cumberland County Schools Edgecombe County Schools Harnett County Schools Lee County Schools Lincoln County Schools Martin County Schools New Hanover County Schools Sampson County Schools Wake County Public Schools Wilson County Schools Sponsors are current as of July 2013

3 introduction Leonard Bernstein Born: August 25, 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts Died: October 14, 1990, New York, New York FEATURED WORK: Overture to Candide Leonard Bernstein was one of the most talented musicians of the 20th century. He wrote both popular and classical music, and he was a great pianist, conductor, author, lecturer, and teacher. He was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but he grew up in Boston. His parents did not approve when, at age eleven, Bernstein began to show a passion for music. They wanted him to take over the family business, instead of being a musician. He tried to play an instrument for the first time when his aunt sent her old piano to be stored at his parents house. He took to the instrument like a duck to water and used his allowance to pay for piano lessons. His teacher recognized how talented Bernstein was and he encouraged him to keep playing. He also took Bernstein to attend his first orchestra concerts. Bernstein graduated from high school with honors in 1935 and then went to Harvard to study business and music. Since he didn t want to take over the family business, he moved to New York City and tried to make a living as a musician. Then, a friend helped him get a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. At that school, his teachers and peers realized that he was a great conductor. In 1943, when he was 25 years old, he stepped in at the last minute to conduct a performance by the New York Philharmonic when their usual conductor became ill. There was no time for rehearsal, but Bernstein knew the difficult music so well that he conducted it from memory and became an overnight success. He spent the next year travelling around the world conducting more than 100 concerts. In 1957, he became the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. While working there, he created a series of special concerts just for children. Those concerts were watched by kids all over the world on television. He was also a famous composer of symphonies, ballets, concertos, and even Broadway musicals (including West Side Story and Candide). He won many awards and medals for his musical work. When he died in 1990, he was one of the most respected musicians in the world. FUN FACTS As a child, he had asthma and allergies that kept him indoors. North Carolina Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn worked with Bernstein and was given the maestro s baton box after he died. During his career, Bernstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received a Kennedy Center Honor, a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement, nine other Grammys, two Tonys and eleven Emmys.!

4 sound the overall of the instruments that are playing...it s how the music feels

5 Georges Bizet Born: October 25, 1838, Paris, France Died: June 3, 1875, Bougival, France Georges Bizet grew up in a very musical household. His aunt was a famous singer, his father was a singer and composer, and his mother was a pianist. Bizet loved to play the piano, and could already read and write music by the age of four! He was a child prodigy and, shortly before his tenth birthday, he enrolled at the music school in Paris. While he was a student there, he wrote his first symphony - he was just 17 years old! When he graduated, he won a prestigious award called the Prix de Rome which gave him enough money to live and write music in Rome for three years. Although he enjoyed his time in Italy, he eventually grew homesick and returned to Paris. Bizet really loved writing operas, but he got bad reviews from the opera critics in Paris. The last opera he wrote, called Carmen, became his most famous masterpiece. Sadly, he died before it became as popular as it is today. FEATURED WORK: Mvt. I, Pastorale from L Arlesienne Suite No. 2 FUN FACTS! Bizet was considered a master pianist by the age of 14. His first symphony was written as an assignment at his music school in Paris. It was not performed until 80 years later, in 1935! Now, it is considered a masterpiece. Bizet married the daughter of his music teacher.

6 ALLEGRO PRESTO ANDANTE LARGO...how the speed fast or how of the music slow

7 FEATURED WORK: Flight of the Bumblebee from The Tale of Tsar Saltan Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Born: March 18, 1844, Tikhvin, Russia Died: June 21, 1908, St. Petersburg, Russia When Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a young student, he was much more interested in all of his classes than he was in music. He began taking music lessons when he was six, but he didn t start to really love music until he was 17. Mily Balakirev, a famous composer at that time, realized how talented Rimsky-Korsakov was and encouraged him to start a career in music. Rimsky-Korsakov took a job as a teacher at the music school in St. Petersburg, but he didn t like it very much, so he quit and became a full-time composer, instead. He joined a group of Russian Composers called The Five. They formed a group because they all wanted to write very Russian-sounding music. FUN FACTS! Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov once served as the band director of the Russian Navy. The Five (the group of composers he belonged to) was also called The Mighty Handful because you have five fingers on each hand. Rimsky-Korsakov was a mentor and teacher of another famous composer Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky s masterpiece is called The Rite of Spring.

8 ...or the softness loudness of sound

9 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born: January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria Died: December, 5, 1791, Vienna, Austria Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a very gifted musician, even when he was a very young child. He started to write his own music when he was just five years old, and just a few years after that, he was performing for kings and queens, famous composers and some of the most important people in Europe. By the time he was eight, he had written three symphonies! By the end of his lifetime, he had written hundreds and hundreds of pieces of music. He wrote music in all of the musical styles that were popular at the time, including operas and concertos. Unlike most other composers, Mozart was great at writing just about any type of music he tried. He is still thought of as one of music s great geniuses. FUN FACTS! Mozart had perfect pitch. That means that he could hear any note and name it without having to play it on the keyboard first. As an adult, Mozart enjoyed playing billiards and dancing. He also had several pets including a canary, a dog and a horse. Like many men in the 1700s, Mozart wore a powdered wig. A wig was considered very fashionable, and it also kept people from having to wash their hair every day. Mozart was writing music at the same time the American Revolution was taking place. FEATURED WORK: Mvt. I from Symphony No. 35

10 sections...how the of the music are put together its structure the main idea of the music...the line that you walk away singing

11 FEATURED WORK: Mvt. III from Symphony No. 3 Johannes Brahms Born: May 7, 1833, Hamburg, Germany Died: April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria Johannes Brahms father was a musician and his mother was a seamstress. Brahms was a very talented musician, even as a little boy. He began playing the piano when he was seven years old, and he helped to pay his family s bills by working as a musician in restaurants and theaters. When he was a teenager, he started to conduct choirs and he later became a very good orchestra conductor, too. By the time he was 19 he was also a well-known pianist and played a concert tour around Europe. Brahms met many famous musicians while traveling, including the violinist Joseph Joachim and the composers Franz Liszt and Johann Strauss, Jr. He also met the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi who introduced Brahms to Hungarian folk music and gypsy tunes. Brahms loved those sounds and included them in many of the pieces he wrote. FUN FACTS! Brahms was his own toughest critic. He destroyed many of his own musical scores sometimes throwing them in the fireplace because he didn t think they were good enough. Brahms learned to play the cello when he was young, but he had to stop when his cello teacher stole his instrument! Although Brahms was quiet and shy he had many good friends and he was thought of as a favorite uncle to many of his friends children.

12 a pattern of notes of varied lengths and accents...the pulse beat or the of the music

13 Guiseppe Verdi Born: October 10, 1813, Le Roncole, Italy Died: January 27, 1901, Milan, Italy Giuseppe Verdi was born in a very small town in Italy where his family owned an inn. Verdi started taking music lessons with the village organist when he was just four years old. He was a very good musician and whenever his teacher was sick Verdi filled in for him and played the organ at church services. In fact, when he was just nine years old he took over the job officially and even earned a small salary. When he was 11 he moved to the slightly larger town of Busseto to study at the music school there. At the same time he started to write his own music which he performed at the local church. He even got to take piano lessons from the pianist at the famous opera theatre called La Scala. When he graduated from music school he returned to Busseto and became the conductor of the local orchestra. He wrote his first opera, called Oberto, there and it was performed at La Scala. He went on to write many more successful operas. He became very famous and rich, and his music was performed all over the world. Some of his most well-known operas are Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, and Aida. FEATURED WORK: Ballet Music from Aida FUN FACTS! Verdi was a very smart businessman and a politician. He was even elected as a member of the Italian Parliament. Verdi donated a large sum of his own money to start a retirement home for elderly musicians. Verdi was a national hero in Italy. His funeral was attended by more people than any other event in the history of the nation up to that date. Verdi admired Shakespeare and wrote operas based on his plays Macbeth, Othello and Falstaff.

14 TEXTURE TEMPO DYNAMICS FORM MELODY RHYTHM...work together to form music

15 FEATURED WORK: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila Mikhail Glinka Born: June 1, 1804, Smolensk, Russia Died: February 15, 1857, Berlin, Germany Mikhail Glinka took piano, violin, and voice lessons as a child, but his first job was working for the government in the Department of Highways. He did not like that very much, though, so then he decided to study music in Italy and Germany. He fell in love with opera in Italy and then returned to Russia to be a full-time composer. He wrote operas, songs, and music for solo piano, and for orchestra, and for chamber ensembles those are small groups of instruments, like string quartets. FUN FACTS! Glinka was very fond of folk music and used folk songs from Russia, Finland, Poland, Italy, Spain, and the Middle East in his music. He was the first Russian composer to become very famous in his own country. There are three music schools in Russia that are named after Glinka. Glinka s music was a strong influence on another composer on our concert program, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

16 We have included a song for you to sing with us at your concert. The Products of Our State (sung to the tune of She ll Be Comin Roun the Mountain ) can also be played with instruments, like the recorder. We hope to hear an instrumental group from your school perform this song at your concert before you sing it with the orchestra. For those who will play, here are the instructions: 1 Learn to play The Products of Our State on an instrument, such as recorder, stringed instrument, bells, xylophone, guitar or other. 2 Memorize the music so you can watch your conductor. 3 Play the song through one time at your North Carolina Symphony concert. The Products of Our State The Products of Our State (Orchestra introduction) & # Œ Œ œ œ. & # 1. If you re chew - ing on an ap - ple that is 2. girls are wear - ing pret - ty pop - lin 3. house is made of brick or made of œ sweet, skirts, wood, œ œ œ eat - en all the tur - key you can eat, If you ate a sweet po - ta - to think - ing boys are sport - ing com - fy cot - ton shirts, If your jeans are made of den - im and you re fur - ni - ture is stur - dy, strong, and good, If you pur - chase wreaths and trees or use 1, 2. œ œ If If If you ve you your & # œ. œ œ œ œ œ œ that look new there s no - thing great - er, Then you know that N. C. pro - ducts - ing real good in em, Then you re wear - ing tex - tile pro - ducts tech - no - lo - gies, Then you have some lead - ing pro - ducts & # 3. (e=e) 8 j œ 4 2 œ œ œ. state. 4. If you've & # 8 œ. œ. œ œ 4 2 from our state is can t from from be N. our beat. C. (2.) If (3.) If œ œ œ you you re lis - tened to the words of our fun song, You know the list of pro - ducts long, Fur - ni - ture and things to grow, Bricks to & # œ œ œ œ œ. œ. Œ sew, North Car - o - li - na is the great - est state we know! Words by Madge McCannon Patton Arrangement by Terry Mizesko (Orchestra coda) Traditional œ build and cloth to 4 North Carolina Symphony, 3700 Glenwood Ave., Suite 130, Raleigh, NC North Carolina Symphony Student Handbook 2013 by North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc. Reproduction of this book in its entirety is strictly prohibited.