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Page 1: Get to Know The Rock School for Dance Education Scary ... to Know The Rock School for Dance Education Scary Sounds and Syllables I LO GA OR CLAR MOUN ... Might Be Giants, the Vitamin

Get to Know The Rock School for Dance Education Scary Sounds and Syllables

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Halloween Humor

Going to Dynamic Extremes

Get to Know Michael Boudewyns Host

Now in its 52nd year, the Rock School for Dance Education offers the highest quality dance training for talented young artists from around the world, as well as extensive outreach programs that annually reach over 16,000 underserved youth, providing physical fitness and extensive dance education to inner city schools.With annual enrollment exceeding 1,200 students at its Center City and suburban locations, the School awards more than $900,000 in annual scholarships, maintains a year-round supervised residence program, and provides a cutting-edge academic program for grades 7-12.Rock School dancers are in every major ballet company in the United States as well as in Europe, Asia, and on Broadway. For an unprecedented 10 consecutive years, the Rock School has been named “Outstanding School” at Youth America Grand Prix, the largest ballet competition in the world, as well as “Best School” in the World Ballet Competition. Rock School dancers were invited to appear on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, where the judges voted unanimously to send them to the Las Vegas finals.

The Rock School has partnerships with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Curtis Institute of Music, and performs at the Mann Center, Longwood Gardens, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Barnes Museum and receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tell us about yourself. Where did you grow up? Where do you live now? I have one brother and one sister; I’m the oldest. I grew up and went to school in Iowa (elementary, middle, high school, and college.) I moved to Delaware for graduate school and stayed for 26 years. This past summer I moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, with my wife, Sara Valentine.

What were your favorite activities as a kid? Going to the library, putting on magic shows, riding my bike. What do you like to do in your spare time now? I love reading about history. Right now I’m reading a book about a famous volcano called Tambora that erupted in 1815. The eruption was so powerful that it changed the world’s weather patterns for three years.

What is your favorite pizza topping? I love pizza with vegetables especially spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, and broccoli.

What music do you like to listen to when you’re happy? I like listening to pianist Glenn Gould’s 1955 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Miles Davis, They Might Be Giants, the Vitamin String Quartet, and Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox.

Do you have any acting heroes? Bill Irwin, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Ruth Draper, Jim Henson, and Mel Blanc.

If you could have dinner with any person (living or not), who would it be? Leonard Bernstein. He was a brilliant artist, musician, composer. The breadth of skills and talents he possessed was astounding and inspiring.

Get into the Halloween spirit with fun facts about some spooky, spine-tingling classical pieces. Fill in the answers to the clues by using all the syllables in the syllable box. The number of syllables to be used in each answer is shown in the parentheses. Each syllable will be used once. The number of letters in each answer is indicated by the dashes. View the solution at www.philorch.org/family.

1. This instrument is used to depict bones in the “Fossils” movement of Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

(3) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

2. A Night on Bald _________, a piece written by Modest Musorgsky and performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra in the movie Fantasia, was never performed during Musorgsky’s lifetime.

(2) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

3. This mythological creature (which you’ll hear more about today) flies around and lives deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs.

(4) ___ ___ ___ ___ - ___ ___ ___ ___

4. In “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” from Symphonie fantastique, composer Hector Berlioz wrote for the violins to play using the backs of their bows to depict the sound of a bubbling _______.

(2) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

5. Totentanz, a tone poem written by Franz Liszt for piano and _____________, means “Dance of the Dead.”

(3) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

6. In Rachmaninoff’s The Isle of the Dead, this instrument joins the oboe in the opening to represent the sound of oars being rowed through the river Styx.

(3) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

7. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski, was originally written for this instrument.

(2) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

8. The third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2, “Marche funèbre” is translated “_________ March” and was also transcribed for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski.

(3) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

A tourist in Vienna is walking through a graveyard on Halloween when all of a sudden she hears music. No one is around, so she starts looking to see where it’s coming from.

She finally locates the source and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: “Ludwig van Beethoven.”

After listening for a few minutes she realizes that the music is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward. Puzzled, she leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with her.

By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but it is also being played backward.

Curious, the two agree to consult a musicologist at a local university. When they return with the professor, the Fifth Symphony is playing and the expert concludes that they are correct: the symphonies are in fact being played in reverse.

By the next day word has spread about this symphonic phenomenon and a huge group gathers around the grave to hear the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then the graveyard’s caretaker approaches the group. Someone in the crowd asks him: “Do you hear this? What’s going on?”

“Oh, it’s nothing to worry about,” says the caretaker. “Beethoven’s just decomposing!”

The term “dynamics” describes volume in music, or how loud or soft something is played. Composers use different dynamic levels to express various moods, create different characters, and paint scary settings like the ones you’ll hear at today’s concert.

Find each of the musical terms for dynamics listed below by connecting the letters up, down, left, right, or diagonally as shown in the example. The definition of each musical term is shown in parentheses. View the solution at www.philorch.org/family.

HINT: Letters are not shared, and words do not cross.

pianissimo (very soft)

piano (soft)

mezzo-piano (medium soft)

fortissimo (very loud)

forte (loud)

mezzo-forte (medium loud)

crescendo (getting louder)

decrescendo (getting softer)

sforzando (suddenly very loud

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