Sound All Around concerts are interactive programs with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra and award-winning storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston. Children listen to stories with music, sing songs, move to the music, pretend to play an instrument, and examine real instruments up close.
The Sound All Around Program is a 45 minute concert for children to explore and learn about the different instruments of the orchestra. Kindergarten has been studying music in all aspects of their curriculum, so this was another wonderful opportunity for the students to experience a space where musicians perform and to learn more about the Percussion Family!
The performance was held in the Perelman Theater at The Kimmel Center for The Performing Arts.
There was a giant's chair in the lobby and the ceiling was so so high!
Inside the Perelman we noticed ALL the instruments on the stage and we excitedly anticipated the beginning of the program.
Ms. Charlotte was our host and storyteller, she was a great singer. She introduced us to Mr. Matt who was our 'accompanist' on the piano and Ms. Angela who was a percussion player. Ms. Angela has been in the Philadelphia Orchestra for 16 seasons!
We learned that there were three types of percussion instruments; wood like the marimba, metal like the Agogo bells and skin like the Jambe drum.
Ms. Angela could play so many melodies on the marimba and she used four mallets at one time! She told us a story about ice-cream and played the ice-cream truck song! Ms. Angela also played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and If You're Happy and You Know It, which we helped to sing!
Ms. Charlotte told us the story of The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. Ms Angela and Mr. Matt accompanied the story on piano and with lots of different percussion instruments. Some of the instruments used were the sand blocks, a ratchet, a tambourine, a cabasa and the marimba.
At the very end of the program, we gave a round of applause to all the musicians!
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