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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-10-29 14:10
Um, I realize that my 11 year old's Spanish class ain't exactly Carnegie Hall, but "I takes the gigs as I gets the gigs." My question---I'm to play clarinet and my son is to play various percussion instruments for a "Spanish class" gig. Any repertoire suggestions?
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2003-10-29 20:28
Romanza Andaluza by Pablo Sarasate- for violin but the first half could work and the second half you'd just have to cut the bottoms of the double stops. The orchestra has castanets- that could work for your son's part.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-10-29 22:03
If your audience is 11 year olds, I'd keep the selections as "popular" as possible.
Songs like: La Cucaracha, Mexican Hat Dance, Guantanamera, Cielito Lindo
and La Bamba will all probably hold their attention and be familiar.
Simple persussion instruments possibly borrowed from the band room (tambourine, maraccas, castanets, guiro, wood block) can be given to selected students to accompany the different tunes.
See if you can find the lyrics to the tunes (in Spanish, of course) and have the teacher, or class translate them.
It could be fun to get the entire class involved as active listeners rather than as passive listeners...GBK (been there, done that)
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2003-10-29 23:47
GBK,
Spoken like a former school music teacher (I was thinking along the same lines). Nice work.
HRL
PS Maybe something from Carmen as well might be nice. I think Spanish Eyes might be a little too over the top for that grade level.
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