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Trekking Mexico

Entertaining, educating, and exciting, the Mexico Beyond Mariachi experience ignites the imagination. Expand your students’ perceptions of Mexico through the artists’ use of pre-colonial instruments and traditional interpretations of music and dance. Students learn how native cultures and Spanish culture combined to create a unique Mexican culture of music, dance, and costuming. Students come away […]

Peter and the Wolf

This classic musical story is brought to stirring life by the Phoenix Woodwind Quintet as instruments “play” the voices of Peter and his animal friends. Through theatrical devices including masks and mime, students participate to help create the characters. Students learn about woodwind instruments and musical concepts while sharpening their listening skills. Program options: In-person […]

Babar The Elephant

In this classic story by Jean de Brunhoff with music by Francis Poulenc, children discover the instruments of the woodwind quintet, learn to recognize instrumental sounds and moods, and hear the difference between melody and accompaniment and woodwind and brass. A gifted actor-storyteller narrates the tale of Babar, a baby elephant who loses his mother […]