Musical Storytelling and Kathak Dance During the Kahe Chede Mohe performance below, our orchestra is joined by Deepali Lindblom, a dancer performing the Kathak style of dance. Kathak is one of the seven Indian classical dances. It originated as a form of storytelling and through centuries became more refined and complex in technique and storytelling. […]
We’ve Got the Blues Use this activity to have students create their own blues story. Students can listen to “I’ve Got the Blues” by Sam Myers to get a sense of how lyrics and storytelling can happen over a basic blues line. Then, using this backing track video, have students create their own blues story.
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Good News Bad News Play this fun game to get young ears more familiar to the sounds of major and minor chords and how they relate to the different moods they often portray. Students will create their own (short) stories that correspond with the chords they’re hearing. When the students hear a major chord, they
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