All performances held in the Anheuser-Busch Hall of the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri – St. Louis.
Stolen Moments: The First One Hundred Years of Jazz
featuring Metta Quintet
November 2 & 3, 2010, 9 a.m.
Targeting students in grades 6-12, Stolen Moments is a thoroughly engaging, 70-minute multi-media program that introduces audiences to jazz music’s rich history and to the names, faces and music of some of its many masters.
Big Drum/Small World for KIDS!
featuing Metta Quintet
November 2, 2010, 11 a.m.
This globally themed multi-media program is geared towards students in grades 3-5 and features music from West Africa, Israel, Cuba, Iraq, Puerto Rico, India, Spain, Brazil, China and the United States. Featuring fun, short video interludes that offer insight on the various ways the American jazz tradition has inspired other cultures, this program promotes the value of creative collaboration by showing the unique way that jazz provides us with a forum to explore our differences, share ideas and discover common ground.
Hangin’ with the Giants
featuring Metta Quintet
November 3, 2010, 11 a.m.
Staged as a late night talk show, Hangin’ with the Giants features animated likenesses of jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles davis and Thelonious Monk as show guests. This program targets grades K-4 and gives students the opportunity to interact with the animated characters as well as hear examples of their musical contributions to jazz.
For tickets to the 2010 Youth Concerts, click here.
Admission to these concerts is free. Subsidies for transportation are also available based on need. To inquire about transportation reimbursement, contact Phil Dunlap at phil@jazzstl.org or 314.289.4033.
The Jazz St. Louis Youth Concerts address the following state and national education standards:
National Music Education: 6-9
Missouri Show-Me Standards: FA 1-5, CA 5-7 & SS 2, 5-6
Illinois Learning: 25A, B; 27A, B
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