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Dates:Sun from 10/4/15 - 10/4/15
Hours:2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Ages:Kids
In/Outdoor:Indoor
Cost:Free see below
Category:Music & Concerts

The Places of Music: A Musical Celebration for Children Exploring How Music Can Represent Different Places and Cultures especially for kids from four to nine.

Children who learn music at an early age have been shown to perform better in most other areas of development.

Hoping to help ignite that creative spark in our local youth, the Middlesex Concert Band presents its annual children’s concert on Sunday, October 4, 2015 at the Americal Civic Center in Wakefield, 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Each year, this free concert, which is geared toward children four to nine years of age, focuses on a different aspect of music—demonstrating for the audience how tempos, rhythms, instruments, etc. are combined to bring a composer’s vision to life.

This year’s theme is The Places of Music, exploring how music can create imagery in the listener’s mind, representing anything from specific places to broad cultures.

Music Director Mark Olson has put together a thoughtful program that will stir the imagination of listeners of all ages through pieces including Sousa’s “New York Hippodrome March,” Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” Dello Joio’s “Scenes from the Louvre,” the Latin rhythms of “Mambo” from Bernstein’s West Side Story, and the toe-tapping rhythms of “Dixieland Jam!”.

The music also invites listeners to spend “A Day at the Fair,” in which composer James Curnow depicts several sights at a fair including a parade, a haunted house, the carousel, the midway, and a rodeo.

Finally, the music takes to audience to a galaxy far, far away with “Star Wars—The Marches” by John Williams.

The unique setting of this concert, presented in the gymnasium of the Americal Civic Center, puts the children in attendance on the same level as the band where they can get a unique, up-close perspective.

A large section of the floor is covered with craft paper, with pillows and crayons, where kids can stretch out color while listening to the music.

Each child will receive a souvenir coloring book based on the themes of the concert.

Halfway through the program, the children will be invited to participate in a parade of flags, which gives them a chance to burn off a little energy while they will around the gym to the well-known strains of the “Stars and Stripes Forever” march.

Continuing a popular tradition, one child will be selected to conduct the band during this march.

Children are also invited to stay after the music stops to visit with the musicians as they set up an instrument “petting zoo” where everyone can get a hands-on experience with the instruments of the band.

The Middlesex Concert Band is a nonprofit community band based in Wakefield, Massachusetts that regularly performs concerts in Wakefield and surrounding communities, striving to bring affordable entertainment to all.

Originally founded in the 1950s as a marching band, the group later evolved into a concert band which gave its first performance in the spring of 1975 at Memorial Hall in Melrose.

Since then, it has become one of the area’s outstanding community musical organizations, performing in various indoor venues from September through June and presenting a number of free outdoor concerts during the summer months.

The Places of Music—A Free Children’s Concert, takes place at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 4, 2015 at the Americal Civic Center, 467 Main Street, Wakefield, MA.

Funding for this concert is provided in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by the Wakefield Cultural Council.

For more information about the Middlesex Concert Band, go to www.mcbconcertband.org.

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FREE

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www.mcbconcertband.org/chords.htm

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467 Main Street, Wakefield, MA, 01880 map
Phone: 781-670-7662

In the gymnasium of the Americal Civic Center on Main Street, Wakefield.

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  • Limited parking available in side parking lot and on the street, but plenty of extra parking is available in the Galvin Middle School parking lot adjacent to the Civic Center.
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