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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents
Program Overview
Program Overview
Classical music meets storytelling, as members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bring your favorite fables and fairy tales to life.
This interactive 45-minute concert engages 3 to 8-year-olds with the actors and musicians as the story unfolds.
Prepare for Your Concert
Prepare for Your Concert
Discover the instruments of a string quartet and make personal connections to the music
and concert themes through pre and post-concert discussions.
Listen to the Concert Repertoire
Listen to the Concert Repertoire
Listen to musical selections from the concert.
Classroom Connections
Classroom Connections
Explore the concert music and themes through these short, integrated lesson plans
What is Chamber Music?
Explore how a chamber ensemble works together to create rich harmonies, melodies, and musical conversations.
Inside the Story:
Feelings, Traits, and Choices
Discover how a character’s feelings, traits, and choices shape a story, and explore creative ways to bring those characters to life.
Tempo Tells the Story
Discover how composers use tempo to express character and emotion, and explore how speed and rhythm bring a story to life through music.
Georgia Standards of Excellence
Georgia Standards of Excellence
ELAGSEKRL2 — With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
ELAGSEKRL3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
(story elements & characters)
ELAGSEKRL9 — With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
ESGMK.RE.1 – Listen to, analyze, and describe music.
a) Distinguish between contrasts in music (e.g., pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, form).
b) Describe music using appropriate vocabulary (e.g., high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow, long/short).
c) Identify basic classroom instruments by sight and sound.
ESGMK.RE.2 – Evaluate music and music performances. a–c) Evaluate and refine performances; explain preferences using musical vocabulary.
ESGMK.RE.3 – Move to a varied repertoire of music, alone and with others. a–b) Respond to contrasts/events in music through movement
ESGMK.CN.1 – Connect music to the other fine arts and disciplines outside the arts.
a) Describe connections between music and other fine arts.
b) Describe connections between music and disciplines outside the fine arts.
Literacy Connections
Literacy Connections
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