3rd Grade Concert Program
Yonder Come Day is an African-American spiritual that originated in the Georgia Sea Islands. Our version starts with a solo verse featuring these 3rd Graders - Royal, Erica, Nissa and Major.
Here's a fun little warmup song students learned for the concert. It is a 'counter melody' song. In other words, there will be 2 melodies eventurally being sung at the same time.
SNOW was written by Teresa Jennings, a female composer from right here in Wisconsin, This song will feature some 3rd graders playing triangles. (This is the 2nd year in a row Mr Moore has wanted a song about snow at our concert, and both years have been snow-free and 50+ degrees on concert day!!!)
FELIZ CUPLEAÑOS is a latin song that uses a traditional Cumbia rhythm.
This song will feature several 3rd graders on other percussion instruments.
The title is in spanish and means happy birthday.
You're probably familiar with this song, but our version will not just feature students playing recorder. We will also have some 3rd graders RAPPING in the song.
Drum Circle - Groove Tune
Some students volunteered to play a collection of drum rhythms and sounds for you that we learned this year in music class. The rhythms include Beledi from north Africa & the Middle East, Cumbia from Columbia, and many other fun drum sounds.
Sir Duke was written by Stevie Wonder in honor of the many musicians that inspired him. Stevie Wonder has won 25 Grammies and is 75 years old and HE STILL PERFORMS! "Sir Duke" refers to Duke Ellington, a jazz piano player and composer who started playing piano when he was 7 and wrote more than 1,000 compositions. Our performance of Sir Duke will feature several 3rd grade soloists.
Originally written for International Peace Day in September, We All Need Peace is a song that focuses on everyone's need for love, hope and peace. With everything that's going on in the world, we thought this would be a great way to finish our concert.