Flute Salad Educational Performances
 | Ask about Flute Salad's fun yet educational performances geared just for kids. Our kids' program blends different areas of interaction, including music, history, social studies, and even movement/dance. Using a timeline, we start with "Yankee Doodle" from 1775 and take kids through the timeline all the way up to "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story and "Nimbus 2000" from Harry Potter. In between, we have pieces such as "Mexican Hat Dance," "Over the Rainbow," "Pink Panther," "Linus and Lucy," and more. As part of the program, we introduce and play the piccolo and the more unusual alto flute, and we have opportunities for kids to move/dance and use maracas as well. At the end of the music portion, kids can try out a flute and a piccolo, which is a favorite part of the program. Kids also enjoy stickers and stamps as a third hands-on area, where they can ask questions and such as well. Overall, the program is educational, interactive, and just fun. The full program runs 75 to 85 minutes from start to end. We can trim the program according to your time needs, and we can adapt the program for younger or older kids. Specially priced for schools and non-profit organizations: $100. |
What music does our educational performances include? All educational performances include pieces that introduce the three flutes, while also providing a vareity of styles of engaging music. Some of the music we use for educational performances may include:
Allegro,
Quantz
Allegro from Sonata in C, Mozart
Baby Elephant Walk,
Mancini
Believe (from Polar Express), Silvestri and
Ballard
Can Can, Offenbach
Dance of the Little Swans,
Tchaikovsky
The Entertainer, Joplin
Fantasy, Lupo
Fiddler on
the Roof, Bock
Irish Washerwoman, Traditional
Linus and Lucy
(from Peanuts)
March Heroique, Kaisershot
Mexican Hat
Dance, arr. Christensen
Nimbus 2000 (from Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone), Williams
Pink Panther, Mancini
Plantation
Favorites, Traditional
Ode to Joy, Beethoven
Peter Gunn,
Mancini
Pink Panther, Mancini
Song of the Lark, Tchaikovsky
Sweet Georgia Brown (aka "Harlem Globetrotter's Theme"), arr. Lopez
Wild Horseman, Schumann
You've Got a Friend in Me (from Toy
Story), arr. Story
Here's what some of our recent clients have said about our educational performances:
"Excellent musicians and great audience rapport! I would invite Flute Salad back again and again." --Anne Silvas, KinderCulture
"...I have had the great pleasure to receive so many words of praise [about Flute Salad]." --Kathleen McBride, Director of Volunteers, Children's Hospital
[Music education programs] like the one Flute Salad has developed are so important. We need more people doing those sort of programs. I did them for many years when I was taking the organ around. It always amazed me how interested the audiences actually were in the music once exposed to it." --Aram Basmadjian, Concert Organist
Questions? Let us know how we can meet your needs at your school or family-oriented organization! Contact Michelle at info@flutesalad.com.
Flute Juice
"[Music education programs] like the one Flute Salad has developed are so important. We need more people doing those sort of programs. I did them for many years when I was taking the organ around. It always amazed me how interested the audiences actually were in the music once exposed to it." --Aram Basmadjian, Concert Organist
"Excellent musicians and great audience rapport! I would invite Flute Salad back again and again." --Anne Holets
"...I have had the great pleasure to receive so many words of praise [about Flute Salad]." --Kathleen McBride, Director of Volunteers, Children's Hospital
"[Flute Salad] added to the festive mood of the evening and was enjoyed by all who came through the gallery." --Linda Hayden, CO-Art Gallery
"You added such elegance to our event!" --Art Reception Coordinator, TASHCO Art Show
"I'd never heard of a flute choir! [Flute Salad's performance] was really unique!" --Audience member, Marvelous Musicale
Flute Salad's Deborah Ray featured in July 2009 Colorado Flute Association Newsletter
Contact Us!
For more information, contact Michelle at info@flutesalad.com.