Music Around the Globe
Grades 3-6Mon Apr 17 — Tue Apr 18, 2023
Orchestra Hall
Every culture produces distinctive folk music, often born of dance (jigs and polkas) or inspired by nature. And the folk music composers hear when they’re young often wields a life-long influence. This buoyant program offers African American idioms in Florence Price’s powerful Third Symphony, Norwegian elements in Edvard Grieg’s Morning Mood and, in Aleppo Songs, the Middle Eastern roots of Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom. Also represented are Mexican, Chinese and Hungarian composers, along with Poland’s Frédéric Chopin, in a piano concerto starring Nita Qiu, an extraordinarily talented YPSCA Young People’s Concerto Competition winner.
Things to Know
- Prepare for the concert with a curriculum coming approximately six weeks before your trip to Orchestra Hall.
- Tickets can be reserved in advance with no payment due until Fall 2023.
- Does your school need financial assistance for an upcoming trip to a Young People’s Concert at Orchestra Hall? Request a bus subsidy.
Artists
Minnesota Orchestra
Ernesto Estigarribia
conductor
Nita Qiu
piano
The Grammy Award-winning Minnesota Orchestra, founded in 1903 and led since its centennial by Music Director Osmo Vänskä, is recognized for distinguished performances around the world, award-winning recordings, radio broadcasts, educational engagement programs, and commitment to building the orchestral repertoire of the future. The Orchestra tours regularly throughout Minnesota and nationally, and has toured abroad in Australia, Canada, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and South Africa. Recording has been an important part of the organization’s mission since the 1920s. During Vänskä’s tenure, the Orchestra has undertaken acclaimed recordings, including complete cycles of symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius and—now underway—Mahler.
Accessibility Services
- ASL Interpretation
- Assistive Listening Devices
- Open Captioning
- Service Animals
- Wheelchair & Accessible Seating
Additional services are available upon request.
Sponsored By
Thomas* and Mary Lou Detwiler
Mary Ann Feldman Music Education Fund
