Steppin’ Out

children participating at Steppin Out

“Steppin’ Out” concerts introduce fourth- and fifth-grade students to symphonic music and the instruments of the orchestra.  Maestro Peter Jaffe conducts and serves as host, working his special magic to excite young people to the powerful sonorities of a full symphony orchestra!




Full information available on the Steppin’ Out website:  click here 

Six annual performances are repeated at Atherton Auditorium in Stockton and Hutchins Street Square in Lodi (dates and reservations below).  Packets of concert information are provided for teachers to prepare classes before the trip to the concert and for review afterwards.  Materials include activities for the bus ride to and from the concert.  The cost per seat is $6; a chaperone is recommended for each 10-15 students.                                       

CONCERT DATES:                

        Lodi:  Feb. 29 at 9:15 and 10:45  (Hutchins Street Square)

        Stockton:  March 1 & 2 at 10:15 and 11:45  (Atherton Auditorium, SJDC)

 CONCERT RESERVATION FORM:  click here for pdf

Steppin’ Out Concerts are specifically planned to support classroom teaching both on music and on a selected curricular subject.  The Stockton Symphony chose a unique concert this year, presenting a World Premiere to emphasize the deepening interest in schools nationally for providing students’ with life skills for conflict resolution and resisting bullying. 

“Uzu and Muzu from Kakaruzu” is an engaging story in the mode of Dr. Seuss of a silly disagreement between two brothers that escalates into a conflict that lasts for generations!  A high wall is built to separate the families as exaggerations vilify “the other” until, as with Romeo and Juliet, a boy and a girl find they like each other across the wall – but this ending is much happier!  A portion of the glorious “Romeo and Juliet” ballet suite of Tchaikovsky is also on the program and the concert ends with a singing of “America the Beautiful” with the orchestra.

Composer Avner Dorman will be onstage to share his creative process of bringing the story to life, attaching musical expression to actions, characters and moods.  Mr. Dorman will visit schools in February and Marc,h before and after the concerts, as he did in November, to share the process of creating music for “Uzu and Muzu” with a narrator and two percussion soloists.

 

MORE INFORMATION: 

    ·         click here for full descriptions of the program and downloadable concert resource materials.

    ·         Email:  rfisher@stocktonsymphony.org

    ·         Call:  209.951.0196

CONCERT RESERVATION FORM:  click here for pdf
             Mail to 1024 W. Robinhood Drive, Suite 1, Stockton, CA 95207 or fax to 209.951.1050