Symphony & Curriculum

To see what students in all grades learn, visit DPI's website here: K-5 Music Curriculum

Below you will find the pieces that are being featured on the 2024-2025 NC Symphony Education Concert. Our 4th graders attended this concert on a field trip on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024.

At the concert, we performed "America, the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) and Samuel Ward (1848-1903). In the video below, you will find a Quaver arrangement of the song.

Read about Katharine Lee Bates here: Katharine Lee Bates

Read about Samuel A.Ward here: Samuel A. Ward

Log into Quaver to read music for the arrangement of "America, the Beautiful" that we performed at the NC Symphony's 2024-2025 Education Concert. The arrangement of "America, the Beautiful" that we performed is by Terry Mizesko.

We spent the 1st quarter learning about the pieces that are being featured on the 2024-2025 NC Symphony Education concert. A copy of the program can be found here: NC Symphony Program Listen to the pieces that are featured on the program by clicking on the videos below. There are links to composer biographies under the videos.

African Dance from African Suite, Op. 35, No. 4 

Learn about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor here: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60

I. Adagio – Allegro vivace

Learn about Ludwig van Beethoven here:Ludwig van Beethoven

Chokfi 

Learn about Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate here: Tate

Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty Suite

Learn about Peter Tchaikovsky here: Tchaikovsky

Mariachitlán

Learn about Juan Pablo Contreras here: Contreras

Symphony No. 94 in G Major, “Surprise”

Learn about Joseph Haydn here: Haydn

Overture to William Tell

Learn about Gioachino Rossini here: Rossini