[Fredslist] FW: Niños' Concert this week!

Wed Feb 27 16:13:59 EST 2008

The concert is this Saturday at 3 pm.  I will be there.  Hope to see you too!

Laurel Scarr-Konel
Grant, Herrmann, Schwartz & Klinger LLP
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NIÑOS CONCERT THIS WEEK!!  

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Saturday, March 1st 

3:00PM

El Museo del Barrio

1230 5th Avenue

(between 104th and 105th St.) 

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PROGRAM

Arturo Marquez - Danzón No. 2

PS 187 3rd and 4th grades - Carnival  of the Composers

Arranged by Pedro da Silva

Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals

Featuring 14- year old pianists: Jeremy Cohen and Lilian Finckel

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"This program has helped me so much, to understand all the concepts of music and how music is so important in the human environment"

Jailinne Lopez Class 4-305

A conversation with the arranger Pedro da Silva 

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Q: So you arranged music written by the children of PS 187 into aten-minunte piece that will be performed by POA at Museo del Barrio, is that right? 

A: The kids wrote shapes and diagrams representing melody, rhythm andaccompaniment figures. I had to interpret their drawings to create the pieces. The kids were highly imaginative, and since each class has a different personality I decided to do each piece in ablues-rock. In one case I didn't interpret their drawings: I scanned the best ones and put them together as a kind of graphic notation piece - like Cage, Penderecki and others have done. Some of their work was so expressive that I knew the only way to really do it justice would be to just have the musicians read the drawings directly. different style: classical, minimalistic, rhythmic, atonal and even

Q: How many "tunes" were there all together?

A: There are six classes in total and each will have a short piece of a minute and a half to two minutes each, but since there are about 20-25 students in each class, I had to carefully look at and analyze the work of about 120-150 students.

Q: How did you go about choosing which ones to include, or did you use all of them?

A: Originally, however foolish the idea might have been, I actually tried to include everyone, but quickly realized that although it would be possible, it isn't in the end very desirable because it ends up sounding like a big mess. I included the ones that had the most potential, were the most interesting, or simply the ones that fit better with the particular piece. Of course, Beethoven has shown us repeatedly throughout his career that one only needs to use one of those ideas, even a very small one, to create a four-movement symphony, like he did for instance with the famous first four notes of his fifth symphony. So using so much material has definitely been a challenge.

Q: What is involved in the process of putting this together?

A: A lot of work... Every student's work has potential, so selecting just a few is already pretty difficult, but the process of translating their shapes to music is quite a challenge to make it work. Especially the classical and atonal pieces. And of course let's not forget all the hard work to bring this project to fruition that POA has done: Alondra de la Parra, the musical director and conductor; Justin Hines, the coordinator of this educational program; all the musicians of the orchestra that went to the school to show their instruments; and of course the kids with their endless enthusiasm and dedication.

Q: What are your thoughts on the talent of these kids? Any future Mozarts out there?

A: Unfortunately I didn't spend enough time with the kids to be able to tell if any of them has the potential of becoming a Mozart... and besides the drawings do not indicate whether they are good in music rather than in the visual arts... However, it is perfectly clear that these are very talented kids. I was really pleasantly surprised at how quiet and attentive they were, asking questions, wanting to participate. This school, PS187, is actually quite marvelous: they eat lunch while Mozart and Beethoven is playing in the background. I couldn't believe it when I saw it, since it's so different from other public schools... This experience has really been a blessing, and I can't wait for the concert.

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