Season 2 Episode 6

Learning about How an Orchestra Works

March 2011

Video by Gary Olsen

e took our Musical Moments camera to Bryant School and the fourth grade class taught by music teacher Karmella Sellers. Students are participating in a unique program with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, "Adopt a Musican." The photo top right is the DSO's concert master and the orchestra's first violin, Caroline Curtis. Here Caroline leads the students and accompanies them with her violin in a lesson designed to teach them how to identify families of instruments and individual instruments in a full orchestra.

The objective of the lesson is to teach students to identify the various instruments by ear and to learn how to play an instrument as part of a team. The students were given drums and various percussion instruments designed to keep a rythm and a beat that would accompany Caroline as she played a passage of music.

 
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Above, show host and administrator of our visual and performing arts curriculum, Cheryl Werner, talks with the maestro of the Dubuque Symphony, William Intriligator.  

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