Science of Sound
Grades 1–6Wed Nov 3, 2021 4pm CT
Join us for an amazing online Young People's Concert presented in partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota and Twin Cities PBS! Students and families will see the full Orchestra onstage and individual members partnering one-on-one with instructors at the Science Museum—where they’ll explore the physics behind sound production and reveal the physical impulses that our brains translate, like magic, into the music we hear and love. Demonstrations will explore concepts like frequency, amplitude and timbre, with musical selections by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Zhou Tian and more. Another treat: seeing it all come together in a star turn by a supremely talented young violinist, winner of YPSCA’s Concerto Competition!
Artists
Sarah Hicks
Principal Conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall
Sarah Hicks is the Minnesota Orchestra’s principal conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall, a role in which she oversees planning for and conducts many concerts in the broad-spectrum series of popular music, jazz, Broadway classics, movie scores and other genres. She also conducted the Inside the Classics and Sam & Sarah series for ten seasons.
Hicks’ career has seen collaborations with a diverse range of artists, from Hilary Hahn and Dmitri Hvorostovsky to Rufus Wainwright, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson. She has been an artistic leader in concerts featuring artists from Minnesota’s internationally-renowned popular music scene—including shows with The New Standards, multiple sold-out performances with Dessa and a live-in-concert recording released on Doomtree Records, and collaborations with indie band Cloud Cult. A specialist in film music and the film in concert genre, she is passionate about creating concert experiences which combine sight and sound, and that welcome new audiences to the orchestral genre.
Partners
THIS YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT IS SUPPORTED BY
Additional Supporters
Vi Victoria Deiro
Mary Ann Feldman Music Education Fund