Kids' Saturday Morning Music Madness - download pdf flyer - media release - 2007

at Pickering Central Library's second floor auditorium
One The Esplanade
Saturday mornings from 10 to 10:45 a.m.

July 8 to August 19 (August 5 excluded)

• Young performers from the Pickering Rotary Music Festival and local schools star in summer music concerts for children and youth.
• All concerts start at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the Pickering Central Library and run 30-45 minutes.
• FREE
• The concerts encourage young people to have fun while they learn more about music.
• These concerts offer a summer refresher parents will enjoy as well!

July 8 • MAD ABOUT YOU!
Burgmueller, Duvernoy, Chopin, some of the composers featured by 11 year old pianist Scott Clumpus and 16 year olds, Sibohan Saravanamuttu, Alex Defaria and Song Yang, show the power of Paris, France. These musicians, born in Germany , Italy and Poland , were drawn to the excellence and excitement of Paris as a cultural centre. We hope you’ll be drawn to culturally rich Pickering to hear 13 year old Anna Macdonald, 14 year old Spencer Horemans and 9 year old Emily Steward round out the opener of Musical Madness. You’ll be mad about these young musical champions of the piano and violin. Emcee Carol Moore.

July 15 • ONLY MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN …
Piano, cello, violin and vocal performances by young people aged 9 to 16 years of age feature music from the British Isles. Nine year old Nathan Sim, 12 year old Aaron McSherry, 13 year olds Martina Parson and Kevin Odorico, 16 year old Michelle Odorico, 14 year old Rheannon Stalleart, 14 year old Emma Steele and 12 year old Aaron McSherry lead in to highland dancers from Jacqueline’s School of Dance. There will be a lot of toe tapping during this concert emceed by vocal performer Gary Faulkner as young people find out why, “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.” Emcee Gary Faulkner.

July 22 • MAD ABOUT CLASSICS!
Chopin and Duvernoy return to the series along with Italian/British composer Clementi, French composer Debussy, German composers Schumann and Beethoven and Irish composer Buckley. Performing their classics on the piano are 9 year old Krista tMannetje and her 12 year old sister Rebecca, 10 year old Nicholas Hung, 15 year old Kevin Bedi, 14 year old Emma Steele, 16 year old Theola Li and 11 year old Christin Spencer. J. Clarke Richardson music teacher Jack tMannetje emcees this program mixing information about great composers with that of great young performers. Emcee Jack tMannetje.

July 29 • MADLY OPPOSITE, MADLY TOGETHER
Director of the Young Singers, Anna Lynn Murphy emcees this program in which young people learn what musical team work means and that even in things opposite, there is often musical common ground. Piano and duets and piano counterpoints with 17 year old Danielle Johannes and Adam Sergison start the programme followed by 11 year old James Saravanamutto, followed by family virtuosos 11 year old Sean Webster is joined by his 12 year old sister Shannon and his dad for a piano Rondo and then sisters Rachel and Sarah Wood perform a vocal duo. Fourteen year olds Chantelle MacMillan and Lindsay Gunn add more vocal power. This program provides family fun, harmony and diversity! Emcees Anna Lynn Murphy and Judy Scott-Jacobs.

August 12 • SASSY MADNESS
Performers from Pine Ridge Secondary School’s and Dunbarton’s SASS clubs perform their own contemporary music. The School Alliance of Student Songwriters, with clubs in over 50 Durham schools, has an enviable record of student composers creating outstanding works. One of the featured composer, Anastasia Pheakos of Dunbarton High School, won the top award at this year’s SASS concert at the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto. Other Dunbarton High School featured composers are Tafar-I Davis, Cierra MacDonald, Joey MacDonald. From Pine Ridge Secondary School we present Joanne Pires and Sophia Mangov and they will show the positive power of music in Pickering. Emcee Tafar-I Davis

We’re mad about these confident young composer/performers! You will be too.

August 19 • MELODRAMA and MAYHEM
The summer musical madness ends with 18 year old Pickering High School pianist Ye Yuan. After Ye shows off his awesome improvisional piano skills, emcee Angie Littlefield will solicit audience participants to take part in simple melodramas. After a few run throughs, Ye Yuan will improvise sound tracks for the audience-performed melodramas. This interactive and fun session provide young people with insights about the power of background music in movies and on TV. It also tells some of the story of the young man from China who hopes to become doctor.

Photo of Michelle Odorico taken by Doug Roberts at Rotary Music Festival 2006.
Photos by Angie Littlefield and Lou Schnippering taken during Saturday Morning Music Madness.

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