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Perfect Square: Kinder Konzerts Commission, Premiere, and Regular Season Creating Kinder Konzerts • Choosing the Story • Selecting the Composer & Criteria for Orchestration • Building the Teams • Premiere Event • Serving the Community: Regular Season Criteria for Choosing the Story • Easily understood by 4 and 5 year olds • Moves forward without extraneous sub-plots • Includes action, rhythm, and repetition in a 8 to 10 minute time frame • Provides potential for interdisciplinary connections for pre-school learning • Appealing tale with some “magic” Author Michael Hall Selecting the Composer • Request & review resume, scores, and recordings of applicant’s work • Request one-minute sample orchestration based on Story • Evaluate sample: is it engaging, easy to listen to, able to delight ages 4 and 5? • Prospective Composer demonstrates interest in the Story theme/content Composer Charles Lazarus & guest Criteria for Orchestral Commission Orchestration is up to the Composer with loose guidelines: • Ensemble: 8 instruments, part of the Minnesota Orchestra • Instruments included: at least one from each of the four orchestral families • Pairing within instrument family, contrasting bigger/smaller, single/double reed, valve/slide, etc. Building the Teams Building the Teams Building the Teams Perfect Square Premiere Perfect Square Premiere At the Premiere, children met musicians and gathered autographs… …on Kinder Konzerts musician trading cards Author Michael Hall signed his book, Perfect Square, in the lobby Serving the Community First Concert of Season - 480 children attended Serving the Community Serving the Community Serving the Community Serving the Community “Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime. This experience cannot be left to chance; it is a duty to provide it.” Zoltán Kodály 1929 Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra “Perfect Square” : Kinder Konzerts Commission, Premiere, and Season DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. Has your organization commissioned a piece of music? If so, what were the challenges? If not, would you consider doing so? 2. Does your organization manage long term music education programs?