Young People's Concerts
Minnesota Orchestra Young People’s Concerts are for schools, homeschools and families looking for an outstanding arts experience that is both educational and engaging. Each Young People’s Concert focuses on a specific musical element, composer, time period or theme, that is supported by free online preparation materials and multi-disciplinary performance elements.
2013-14 Young People's Concerts
Symphony Spooktacular
- Minnesota Orchestra
- To be announced, conductor
- In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
MAHLER
Symphony No. 1: March
SAINT-SAENS
Danse Macabre
WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyries
Experience music that’s spooky and has delightful make-believe elements! Life-size puppets from In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre provide a fantastic visual component to haunting favorites including Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre.
$4 tickets available to this concert as part of our UPbeat initiative. Call for details.
Curriculum Materials
Curriculum materials will be available eight weeks prior to the performance.
Warner Bros. Presents Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
- Minnesota Orchestra
- George Daugherty, conductor
ROSSINI
Barber of Seville Overture
LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
STRAUSS
Overture to Die Fledermaus
WAGNER
Selections from The Ring Cycle
AND MORE!
Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird and Pepe Le Pew at Orchestra Hall? Yep! These and other unforgettable characters will be cavorting across the big screen, bringing all the side-splitting humor of your Looney Tunes favorites—Home Tweet Home, The Rabbit of Seville, What's Opera, Doc?, Long-Haired Hare and more! Adding to the experience will be the Minnesota Orchestra’s live performance of brilliant scores by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn. And "That's Not All, Folks": these are just a few of magical moments that will delight audiences of all ages!
Curriculum Materials
Curriculum materials will be available eight weeks prior to the performance.
Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Minnesota Orchestra
- To be announced, conductor
- James Sewell Ballet, dance company
- Minnesota Chorale, chorus
MENOTTI
Amahl and the Night Visitors
On their way to Bethlehem, the Three Wise Men find a mother and child in great need. In this brief, wondrous opera, mother and child receive the miracles they need most: hope, love, faith and forgiveness.
Curriculum Materials
Curriculum materials will be available eight weeks prior to the performance.
Ferdinand the Bull
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Courtney Lewis, conductor
- Teatro del Pueblo, theater
MOZART
Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, Allegretto (III) and Molto allegro (IV)
FISH
Ferdinand the Bull
BIZET
Carmen Suite No. 1
Here’s both drama and music—as The Story of Ferdinand is brought to life by Teatro del Pueblo. This beloved children’s book by Munro Leaf tells the story of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights. Also on the program: the Orchestra will perform selections from Bizet’s lively Carmen suite as well as Mozart’s famous Jupiter symphony.
$4 tickets available to this concert as part of our UPbeat initiative. Call for details.
Curriculum & Recordings
Curriculum materials will be available eight weeks prior to the performance.
Illustration from The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson, © 1936 by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, renewed © 1964 by Munro Leaf and John W. Boyd. Used by permission of Viking Children's Books, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Supersonic Sounds
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Courtney Lewis, conductor
- Sedra Bistodeau, violin
R. STRAUSS
Also sprach Zarathustra, excerpt
SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto, Allegro, ma non tanto (III)
R. STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
RESPIGHI
The Pines of Rome, The Pines of the Appian Way (IV)
Big sounds rule! All the works on this concert are powerful and intense, starting with the theme from the classic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, from Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra. Talented young Sedra Bistodeau of Princeton, Minnesota, who won YPSCA’s 2012 School Music Auditions, will play the high-energy finale of Sibelius’ great Violin Concerto. Rounding out the program will be Wagner’s extraordinary Ride of the Valkyries and Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
$4 tickets available to this concert as part of our UPbeat initiative. Call for details.
Curriculum & Recordings
Curriculum materials will be available eight weeks prior to the performance.
Rite of Spring
- Minnesota Orchestra
- To be announced, conductor
- Lauren Stringer, author and narrator
COPLAND
Appalachian Spring
STRAVINSKY
Rite of Spring
Appalachian Spring is an iconic American masterpiece that glows with the “American sound” created by its composer Aaron Copland. Experience Stravinsky's Rite of Spring’s vibrant sounds of nature. The new book When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky will be read by author Lauren Stringer, as illustrations are projected above the stage.
$4 tickets available to this concert as part of our UPbeat initiative. Call for details.
Curriculum Materials
Curriculum materials will be available eight weeks prior to the performance.
WHEN STRAVINSKY MET NIJINSKY by Lauren Stringer (Boston: HMH, 2013)
