Music Listening

Week of May 25-29

This week I've got a video of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's 61st birthday celebration featuring his renowned version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" played on the ukulele and sung by him. Give it a listen and watch the beautiful animation! Somewhere Over the Rainbow As always, let me know what you think at akorenchan@nfv.k12.ia.us

Week of May 18-22

This week we have a beautiful operatic duet from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes. This is called the Flower Duet and is sung between two women, a soprano (high voice) and a mezzo (middle voice). The language is French! Flower Duet- Lakmé As always, let me know what you think! akorenchan@nfv.k12.ia.us. Enjoy!

Week of May 11-15

Katelynn Sadler sent two super creative music compositions from some of the activities posted last week and here are links to watch them for yourself! Katelynn Song #1and Katelynn Song #2

Our listening this week is going to be a little different. I have chosen two videos of Steve Martin playing Bluegrass music on the banjo! One of these has a special guest featured playing banjo with him that I bet you all know! Steve Martin- The Crow and Steve Martin Dueling Banjos. As always, email me what you think! akorenchan@nfv.k12.ia.us

Week of May 4- May 8

Congrats to Katelynn Sadler for her work in being the FIRST person to send me her completed BINGO sheet!

This week I have picked one of the greatest Broadway pieces ever written. It was written by Leonard Bernstein (who we learned about at the very beginning of the year!) and is quite a beautiful piece! Tell me what the old man says at the end! akorenchan@nfv.k12.ia.us Let Our Garden Grow- Candide

Week of April 27- May 1

It is still Jazz Appreciation Month so here is another jazz standard. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! akorenchan@nfv.k12.ia.us. Take Five by Dave Brubeck

Week of April 20-24

Happy Jazz Appreciation Month! This weeks music listening is another jazz standard...give it a listen! One of my personal favorites, listen for the beautiful melody that starts the song! Let me know what you think by sending me an email at akorenchan@nfv.k12.ia.us. St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins

Week of April 13-17

Give this song a listen sometime this week, it is one of my favorites! If you have comments and want to let me know what you thought of this song, email me at akorenchan@nfv.k12.ia.us. Singin' in the Rain

This round we had over 20 people participate which is double last week! Here are the percentages

47% Pop

24% Country

9% Rock

9% Electronic/Video Game Music

5% Reggaeton

From now on I'll post the next listening on this page, as well as any more listenings I receive from you!