Students in 4th and 5th grade learn to play the recorder during their second semester of music at CTE. Fifth grade students are now in their second year of playing the recorder and next week they will travel to the Koger Center for the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra's "Link Up" program, an annual event sponsored by Carnegie Hall. During the program, our students will sing and perform on their recorders with the symphony orchestra in a live concert! We've been working very hard since January to prepare the music for this concert. Many of the pieces are quite challenging and 5th graders have done an amazing job learning each piece in very short amount of time!
The theme of our Link Up program is "The Orchestra Moves". From the Carnegie Hall website, this program theme "explores how composers create musical movement using motifs and melodic direction." Each piece has a unique way of utilizing melody, rhythm, and harmony to not only make the music "move", but also to move the listener's emotions in intended and non-intended ways. Sometimes the melody, rhythm, and harmony of the music move in obvious ways, such as when the music notes literally go up when we sing "but now I am rising, I'm floating up high" in the song Away I Fly. Other times the musical elements are not so obvious but still create a sense of movement and emotion, such as the dramatic melody and strong pulse of Toreador, about a bull fighter, in the opera Carmen.
For more information about the awesome Link Up program by Carnegie Hall, please click the button below. Good luck at the concert 5th graders! We know you will perform well and represent all the great things about CTE!
The theme of our Link Up program is "The Orchestra Moves". From the Carnegie Hall website, this program theme "explores how composers create musical movement using motifs and melodic direction." Each piece has a unique way of utilizing melody, rhythm, and harmony to not only make the music "move", but also to move the listener's emotions in intended and non-intended ways. Sometimes the melody, rhythm, and harmony of the music move in obvious ways, such as when the music notes literally go up when we sing "but now I am rising, I'm floating up high" in the song Away I Fly. Other times the musical elements are not so obvious but still create a sense of movement and emotion, such as the dramatic melody and strong pulse of Toreador, about a bull fighter, in the opera Carmen.
For more information about the awesome Link Up program by Carnegie Hall, please click the button below. Good luck at the concert 5th graders! We know you will perform well and represent all the great things about CTE!