(90-second preview)
Reminiscence
From: Program 1 of Creating Stories and Music
Length: 00:06:26
Description:
Composer Lawrence Dillon discusses how different instruments create “characters” in music and how he used piano and cello in his composition Reminiscence. Robert Franz, associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra, tells why performers usually wear black. Then two Louisville Orchestra Young Artist winners, pianist Jim Stopher and cellist John Popham, perform Reminiscence. The excerpt is from Program 1 of Creating Stories and Music, a series that explores the connections between writing music and writing stories. The series includes three half-hour programs, each of which is divided into two shorter segments. Programs explore character, setting, and conflict and resolution and feature Robert Franz as host, writer George Ella Lyon, composer Lawrence Dillon, and a group of elementary school students.
Suggested uses:
- to explore timbre
- to use in combination with “Storm” and “Sunrise” segments to identify and describe orchestral instrument families
- to discuss mood in music
- to compare writing music and writing stories
- as a writing prompt (have students write descriptions of the “characters” they hear)
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