Adventure Concerts provide K-12 students and their families with opportunities to hear captivating, world-class presentations featuring music from Asian, African, Middle Eastern, European, North and South American, and other traditions. This year, Adventure Concerts will be available in two formats:
Musical Learning Concerts and Workshops
Family Adventure Concerts
Musical Learning Concerts and Workshops extend and deepen the Adventure Concert experience through a series of 3 experiential pre-and/or post-concert workshops and a culminating concert. Workshops take place in intimate classroom settings where students have an invaluable opportunity to be inspired by the artists as role models of excellence, and to learn more about specific cultural traditions of the music they will see on stage, while preparing for their participation in the performances.
Working in partnership with the classroom teacher, artists will lead students in age-appropriate activities designed to deepen the students’ aesthetic perception of the culminating concerts. Teachers will be given study materials to assist them in class preparation and follow-up to the workshops and concerts, as well as provide informational links for relating students' musical experiences to applicable areas of their academic curriculum, such as social studies, science, math, history or literacy.
These workshops will prepare children for the culminating concert. Children will attend and participate in the concerts, and follow up with the artists and/or classroom teachers for review/reflection on their concert experience. Performing artists and classroom teachers will be asked for a written reflection form which will be sent to the Midori office.
Family Concerts are Adventure Concerts presented both in-and out-of school hours for students, their families and school communities. These hour long, participatory concerts broaden children’s cultural horizons, and they foster pride in their heritage and enhance communication between generations. All concerts include a pre-concert workshop and/or question and answer time with the artists.
Midori & Friends
352 Seventh Avenue, Suite #301 | New York, NY 10001
212-767-1300
music@midoriandfriends.org
