Animal Songs (March)
In this program for preschoolers and their families, we learned about local animals (chipmunks, moose, bobcats, owls, ducks) by engaging with mounts, antlers, pelts, and feathers, and then sang songs together about these creatures. We then had an animal dance party, inspired by the beautiful music of Saint Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and Prokoviev’s Peter and the Wolf, played by piano, violin, cello, and clarinet. We reached over 100 children ages three to five in schools in Antrim, Greenfield, Hancock, and Peterborough, as well as through a public performance at Bass Hall.
Cranky Bartok (May)
A joyful celebration of how music can spark our imagination and inspire us to create art, this program for all ages invited the audience to paint and draw on a cranky scroll while listening to evocative violin duos by Bela Bartok and a lush, picturesque sonata for two violins and piano by Darius Milhaud. The program culminated in the finished cranky scrolling gently by, accompanied by the music which inspired our collective art-making. We performed in the memory care unit at Scott Farrar in Peterborough, at Maplewood Assisted Living in Westmoreland, at the Peterborough Library, and at Covenant Living in Keene.
Musicians: Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil, Marji Gere & Rohan Gregory violin; Dan Sedgewick, piano; Jacob MacKay, cello; Peter Aventely.
