BPO’s Programs for Children
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In a recent conversation with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Resident Conductor Robert Franz, he described the orchestra’s programs for children and families. Listen to his descriptions of the programs in the pod cast. The experience of hearing music performed by over 70 live musicians in Kleinhans Music Hall is terrific, and these programs ensure that young people will find the orchestra as impressive as do their grandparents.
The Family Concerts are designed for families with children aged between 4 and 10, and continue in December with a concert titled “A Visit from St. Nick,” which includes performances by the Greater Buffalo Youth Ballet and the Buffalo Jugglers Club on December 16 at 2:30pm.
February boasts a science discovery program, “Professor Checkerhead.” Dinosaurs are the topic for the March concert, including music from “Jurassic Park,” the movie, and a piece called “The Jogger and The Dinosaur.” The jogger, who is actually a rapper, narrates this piece. “Arabian Nights” includes music from “Scheherazade”, “Flight of the Bumblebee”, and the movie “Aladdin.” “Beethoven Lives Upstairs” is the story told through the eyes and ears of young boy living below Beethoven in Vienna in the 1820s. Tickets for family concerts may be purchased online at www.bpo.org.
The BPO also provides educational concerts for over 25,000 students in schools throughout Western New York each year. These concerts are created to tie into the curriculum of each grade level. Working with teachers and administrators from a variety of schools, Franz and the orchestra put together programs that make correlations between music and what the children are studying in school.
Franz is very creative with the creation of these programs. This year the concerts include using the musicians as a major math manipulative, a focus on women, including the world premiere of a piece composed by Libby Larsen, and the Industrial Revolution, with ties to the Impressionists of the visual arts.
This image shows the BPO rehearsing earlier this year.
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