Performance practice

4th Grade Music Performance Thursday, January 30, 6pm

Come to Play, by Thomas Cabaniss

Wagoner & Lanni (Part 1): 

Winds blow, trumpets sounding, strings sing

Drummers p-p-p-p-p-p-pounding, 

Drummers p-p-p-p-p-p-pounding,

Cox (Part 2): 

Come to play, join sound with sound

Come to sing we’ll shake the ground with song

Medina (Part 3):

Come to play, join sound with sound

Come to sing we’ll shake the ground with song, with song

What do you do with time?

All: Make it groove, make it ove, make it rhyme

Cox (Part 2): What do you do with song?

All: Make it sing, make it ring, make it strong, make it long

Wagoner & Lanni (Part 1): What do you do with sound?

All: Make it cry, make it fly, make it gleam. Make it your dream.

Wagoner & Lanni (Part 1): 

Winds blow, trumpets swinging, strings sing

Drums play ding dinga ding dinga ding dinga ding

Cox (Part 2): 

Come to swing, join sound with sound

Come to swing we’ll shake the ground with song (with song, with song!)

Medina (Part 3):

Come to swing join sound with sound

Come to swing we’ll shake the ground with song, with song, with song!

Wagoner & Lanni (Part 1): 

Shake the ground with song!

The Blackbird's Party, by Ashley Bryan

Birds like to party. I party too. 

But not the way those blackbirds do.

Why all the fuss? They party like us.

Oh, blackbirds flap, They strut and peck, 

Right claw forward, Left claw back

How many in all, Having a ball?

Ten in the pool, Six on the grass, 

Cawing so cool, Like a birdland jazz.

School of fish, Pool as a dish.

Five dive under, to fish and sup, 

Smack their beaks, When they come up.

So many to treat, What else did they eat?

After the fish, Ate worms for a snack. 

Right claw forward, Left claw back

Recorder: ACD ACD ACDC DCA

Sing, Sing, Sing, by Avon Gillespie

Sing, sing sing, Let’s everybody sing

Sing, sing sing, With all the love you can bring

For life is short, don’t waste it away, Let’s everybody sing

Wagoner’s class keyboard part: CEC BDB A, DFD GABC

Duke's Place by Duke Ellington, Ruth Roberts, Bill Katz, and Robert Thiele

Baby, take me down to Duke's place

Wildest box in town is Duke's place

Love that piano sound at Duke's place

Saxes do their tricks at Duke's place

Drummers swing their sticks at Duke's place

Come on, get your kicks at Duke's place

Descarga Cubana, by Cachao

Como mi ritmo no hay dos (3x)

Suena la paila (3x)

Me voy con mi ritmo, Ritmo cubano (3x)

Medina’s class keyboard part: DDD GG FF G, D GG F A G

Ode to Joy from Symphony #9 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Joyful as we join in singing anthems old yet strong and bright

Near and far to all we're bringing voices filled with hope and light

Singing brings us all together when our voices would be small

Gives us power undivided, now united one and all

Singing brings us all together when our voices would be small

Gives us power undivided, now united one and all

Joyful in the songs we're singing, joined in music and in word

With the power that we're bringing, as one voice we will be heard

Singing brings us all together when our voices would be small

Gives us power undivided, now united one and all

Singing brings us all together when our voices would be small

Gives us power undivided, now united one and all

Cox's class keyboard part (different key than we're singing in):