Music Tells a Story
The Minnesota Sinfonia is delighted to offer another of our Music in the Schools programs, Music Tells a Story, in a special all-video format to the students and children of the state of Minnesota. The curriculum includes:
- Curriculum packet (download below) which includes descriptions of the music, composers, and backgrounds
- State-mandated benchmarks and activities for grade levels K-6
- Videos of the Minnesota Sinfonia performing the entire program
DOWNLOADS
Curriculum Guide: Music Tells a Story
Sheet Music for Student Choirs and Orchestras
VIDEOS
Music Director Jay Fishman introduces the Minnesota Sinfonia and its Music Tells a Story program.
The Minnesota Sinfonia prepares to play its Music Tells a Story program by getting in tune.
The Minnesota Sinfonia plays an excerpt from Woflgang Amadeus Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute.
Sing along as the Minnesota Sinfonia performs two short arias from Mozart’s The Magic Flute!
Listen along as the Minnesota Sinfonia portrays a fight and a beautiful woman while performing Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.
Minnesota Sinfonia strings and oboists deliver a lively reading of the Saint Georges Overture to L’Amant Anonyme.
Envision hundreds of two-armed brooms dumping buckets full of water and flooding a castle! The Minnesota Sinfonia performs The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Paul Dukas.
Fall asleep gently while listening to Engelbert Humperdinck’s Prayer from Hansel and Gretel.
What do you imagine as the Minnesota Sinfonia performs an Overture by José Nunes Garcia?
Enjoy a performance of Paul Schulz’s I’m Comin’ Home sung by the amazing Ginger Commodore!
Ginger Commodore narrates a contemporary version of Cinderella, written by Bernie Fishman and orchestrated by Minnesota Sinfonia Music Director Jay Fishman.
Conclude your day’s Minnesota Sinfonia experience with the Overture to The Light Cavalry by Franz von Suppé.
Watch all twelve videos, one after the other, with this play list!
Students and teachers – check out these short instructional videos!
The Minnesota Sinfonia is pleased to offer a series of videos focusing on each instrument of the orchestra. These instructional videos are like having private lessons with every musician of the Minnesota Sinfonia. Access the first group of videos here.
TEACHER SURVEY
PLEASE help The Minnesota Sinfonia continue to secure funding for the Music in the Schools program – which is provided FREE OF CHARGE to the schools and students – by completing the survey after the “Sinfonia Day” concert at your school. It only takes a few moments to answer a quick SURVEY with easy questions about your students’ MIS experience. Your input is important. THANK YOU!