TakeFive!

Teamwork

Uh oh!  It seems like TakeFive! is having trouble working together!  It's up to our friends in the audience to help us out. 

Audience participation includes conducting, counting, singing, and clapping.

Social concepts include compromise, flexibility, consideration, and accuracy.

Musical concepts covered are dynamics, tempo markings, melody, accompaniment, and canons.

Featured Music:

• Ligeti, Sechs Bagatellen, mvt. I
• Sargeant (arr.), Greensleeves
• Nielsen, Kvintet, mvt. II
• Bach/Sargeant, Fugue in g minor
• Yankee Doodle
• Frere Jacques
• Mozart/Sargeant, Ah Vous Dirai-je, Maman
• Sargeant, Old MacDonald

Five Live

Join TakeFive! for a rollicking good time featuring the Musical Opposites Game.  Jump right in and conduct a crescendo, whisper a pianissimo, "grow" a scale, and dance the Can-Can!

Featured Music:

• Ligeti, Sechs Bagatellen, mvt. I
• Sargeant, Old MacDonald
• Beethoven/Sargeant, Ode to Joy
• Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals, Tortoises
• Offenbach, Orfeus in the Underworld, Can-Can
• Mozart/Sargeant, Ah Vous Dirai-je, Maman
• Sousa, Stars and Stripes Forever

Meet the Animals

Can a horn sound like a horse?  An oboe a duck?  And what can the bassoon possibly impersonate?

Featured Music:

• Sargeant, Old MacDonald
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the Bumble Bee
• Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals

Story Time

Read, listen and play with TakeFive! as we perform along with some of our favorite books.  Join us in a craft before the concert and play along with the musicians.

Repertoire varies.  Please contact info@takefiveconcerts.com for more details.

Peter and the Wolf

Prokofiev's classic narrated tale about a boy, his grandfather, a bird, a cat, and a duck and their adventure with the wolf.