Educators are invited to download the guide to the Minnesota Orchestra's Kinder Konzert for 2017-2018. This presentation is created by Katie Condon for the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra.

1. KINDER KONZERTS EDUCATOR GUIDE 17-18
MAX FOUND TWO STICKS

2. INTRODUCTION
We are so happy you are attending Kinder Konzerts. An educational program of the FRIENDS of the
Minnesota Orchestra, Kinder Konzerts are designed to introduce preschool–aged children to the wonderful
world of music and the symphony orchestra.
Kinder Konzerts is a two-part experience:
1. First, students, teachers, and families will participate in the Sound Factory, where volunteers guide
children through a hands-on music lesson. In the Sound Factory, all children will play a violin, a cello, and
a snare drum.
2. Then, children are the audience for a concert on the stage of Orchestra Hall featuring an ensemble of
eight Minnesota Orchestra musicians and their instruments, a narrator, and a composition based on a
book, created especially for Kinder Konzerts.
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3. Kinder Konzerts Learning Goals:
1. Enjoy the magic and beauty of music.
2. Learn about, identify, and experience making sounds on orchestral instruments.
3. Learn about and demonstrate age-appropriate audience behavior.
4. Understand that music can tell a story.
5. Develop active listening skills and positive audience behaviors.
6. Strengthen emerging literacy through musical experiences.
7. Explore “found sounds” and create music using them.
These learning goals are the musical concepts embedded in this year’s program. The onstage concert and
Sound Factory experiences are designed to support them. Work that you do in the classroom before and
after your visit to Orchestra Hall is a key factor in assisting children to successfully reach these goals.
The purpose of the Educator Guide is to provide ideas and resources to prepare for, experience, deepen, and
reinforce the event. Thank you for bringing the joy of music to a new generation!
Katie Condon
Education Consultant, Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra

4. USING THIS GUIDE
▪ This Guide consists of three parts in three PowerPoint presentations:
Preparing for The Big Day & Resources
Teaching the Story
Exploring Music & Interdisciplinary Lessons
▪ All PowerPoints are available in a variety of formats at the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra
website.
▪ Hard copies of “Teaching the Story” and “Exploring Music & Interdisciplinary Lessons” will be
available at the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra Educator Workshops.
▪ We are excited to provide this content in a new, dynamic way. If you have any questions, please
contact Andy Christensen at achristensen@mnorch.org or Katie Condon at
condon.Katie@macphail.org.
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5. PREPARING FOR THE BIG DAY!
The day of the concert is exciting for everyone, with lots to see and
hear. Help children prepare for the event by letting them know
what to expect. Here are learning activities to use in your
classrooms.

6. WE ARE THE AUDIENCE
▪ Introduce the word audience. Ask students if they know what the word means.
Explain that an audience has a job; to watch, listen and notice. Make it an active
task.
▪ Sing an audience song! See the next slide for notation, and the slide after that
for a video.
▪ Hold classroom concerts to get in some audience practice. Invite students to
perform for one another. Invite parents, grandparents, siblings, or special guests
into the classroom to perform. Have a listening party where you play a favorite
piece and practice letting all the sounds come in.
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8. WE ARE THE AUDIENCE
K. Condon, used with permission
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9. TALK ABOUT THE BIG DAY
Anticipate the sequence of events and plant some seeds. Emphasize new vocabulary. Here are some
helpful talking points:
▪ In a few weeks, we will take a special trip to a building made just for music. It’s called Orchestra
Hall because an orchestra plays there – the Minnesota Orchestra.
▪ We’ll ride a bus to downtown Minneapolis. We’ll see some big buildings. What else do you think
we might see?
▪ Orchestra Hall has many large glass on the outside. We’ll walk through glass doors into a lobby.
We will meet a friendly guide who will teach us about music, help us find our way around, and
lead us through the day.
▪ After we gather in the lobby, we will go to two places: the Sound Factory, where we will create
sounds and make music, and the Orchestra Hall stage where we will hear the concert.
▪ In the Sound Factory, we will sing songs, learn about finding sound in everyday “stuff,” and play
instruments, including a violin, a cello, and a snare drum.
▪ We’ll walk through doors to a big room, and notice big blocks or cubes on the wall and ceiling.
The cubes help sound bounce around the room so everyone can hear the music.
▪ We’ll go up some steps and sit on the stage. When we are onstage, musicians will play their
instruments and tell us about how their instrument makes sound. A storyteller will tell the
musical story of Max Found Two Sticks.
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10. REINFORCE WITH VISUALS
▪ The next several slides contain a series of images with sample narrative. Feel free to use these
suggestions or create your own. FRIENDS of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra’s
Facebook pages have many great pictures of the space, the musicians, and the events that happen at
Orchestra Hall. Visit these sites for images that will help you introduce your students to the experience.
▪ Create classroom bulletin boards with images of musicians and instruments. Instrumentation for Max
Found Two Sticks is listed below. See the end of this power point presentation for slides with pictures of
each instrument.
▪ Clarinet
▪ Bassoon
▪ Trumpet
▪ Bass Trombone
▪ Violin
▪ Cello
▪ Traditional percussion
▪ Found object percussion
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11. In a few weeks, we are going
to take a trip to a special
building made just for music.
It’s called Orchestra Hall. This
is how Orchestra Hall looks
from the outside.
The outside of Orchestra Hall
has many glass walls. We’ll
walk through glass doors into
a lobby.
A TRIP TO
ORCHESTRA HALL

12. Here’s part of the lobby
inside Orchestra Hall at a
busy Family Concert
Learning in the Lobby event.
Children and their grownups
are making pictures from a
musical story.
THE LOBBY

13. The Minnesota Orchestra plays at Orchestra Hall. An orchestra is a group of
musicians who play music together on many different instruments.
Here’s a picture of the Minnesota Orchestra.

14. Here is how the Minnesota
Orchestra looks when they
play their instruments on
stage.
ON STAGE

15. Orchestra Hall is a place for
everyone. Here we see
some families at a Family
Concert.
ALL ARE WELCOME

16. We will meet a friendly
Guides who will teach us
about music, help us find
our way around, and lead us
through the day.
In the Sound Factory,
Guides will help us play a
violin, cello, and snare
drum.
IN THE SOUND
FACTORY

17. To get to the stage, we will
walk through the ring
corridor with our Guide. We
will notice the carpet on the
walls. It helps to keep
musical sounds in the hall,
and noisy sounds from
outside out of the hall.
We’ll walk through some
doors to a big room with
many chairs. There are big
blocks or cubes on the wall
and on the ceilings. Those
cubes help sound bounce
around the room so
everyone can hear the
music. Here’s a good picture
of the cubes.
MAGIC CUBES!

18. MUSICIANS, A CONCERT, AND A MUSICAL STORY
After we walk up some steps and sit on the stage floor, we’ll meet the musicians. They will
play their instruments and tell us how they work. A storyteller will read a musical story called
Max Found Two Sticks. We will listen, and when it’s over, we will clap and say bravo because
we are a great audience!

19. RESOURCES

20. LISTENING LISTS WITH LINKS –
LISTEN AND WATCH MUSIC FOR ACTIVE MOVEMENT
▪ Feel fantastic rhythms in Malambo, by Alberto Ginastera,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36xmzYpujc
▪ Move like robots to Music for Pieces of Wood, by Steve Reich,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy2kyRrXm2g
▪ Dance gracefully to Waltz #2, by Dmitri Shostakovich,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I
▪ March like you are in a royal parade to the Minuet from Handel’s Music for the
Royal Fireworks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDa3J2KJqxM
▪ Boogie to Take the A Train, by Duke Ellington,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6mFGy4g_n8
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21. LISTENING LISTS WITH LINKS-
LISTEN AND WATCH MUSIC FOR CALM AND REST
▪ Take a rest to Arcadiana- 6: “O Albion”, by Thomas Adés,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP5__SSf3dk
▪ Imagine beautiful colors while listening to Of Paradise and Light, by Augusta Read,
Thomas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP5__SSf3dk
▪ Feel a sense of calm and peace while listening to the “Humming Chorus” from
Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f1k14GQmNE
▪ Use imaginary finger paints or streamers, ribbon wands, or scarves to trace the
highs and lows of the beautiful flute melody in Syrinx, by Claude Debussy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw53VrbI4l0
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22. LISTENING LISTS WITH LINKS-
LISTEN AND WATCH FOUND SOUND MUSIC
▪ For music that incorporates found sound , check out the performance group Stomp.
They make music with all sorts of everyday objects. For example:
▪ With basketballs and pots pans-www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg-G6sHSp5M
▪ Or newspapers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8jICj8juc
▪ Or playing cards! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhFmARAgu0
▪ This Household Percussion Jam, by Brigham, shows many sounds from the same
object. Wait for the saw!
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Cqyi5WxSU
▪ The band Matmos created this entire song by recording sounds from a washing
machine.
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS1Ii77n8iA
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23. BOOKS & WEBSITES WITH LINKS
▪ Meet the Orchestra, by Ann Hayes
▪ Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! By Lloyd Moss
▪ Story of the Orchestra, by Robert Levine
▪ The San Francisco Symphony’s website for children: sfskids.org
▪ And the New York Philharmonic’s website for children: nyphilkids.org/
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24. GLOSSARY
▪ AUDIENCE- The group of people who watch and listen to a performance
▪ BEAT- A steady pulse in music
▪ BOW- What performers do at the end of a performance, when the audience claps for them
▪ BRAVO- An Italian word the audiences shout after hearing music they really like
▪ MUSICIANS- People who make music
▪ NARRATOR- A person who tells a story
▪ ORCHESTRA- A group of musicians who play together using instruments
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25. INSTRUMENT PICTURES

26. CLARINET
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27. BASSOON
(FRONT AND BACK)
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28. TRUMPET
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29. BASS TROMBONE
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30. VIOLIN
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31. CELLO
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32. TRADITIONAL AND FOUND OBJECT PERCUSSION
Snare Drum Bucket Drum
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33. FREE CLIP ART
▪ Specific clip art credits for story-related items (buckets) can be found at the end of
the “Teaching the Story” Power Point presentation.
▪ Here’s a website that has many free images of instruments:
https://www.wpclipart.com/music/instruments/violin/index.html
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