WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series Spring 2010

Saturdays at 12:30 PM, Free and Open to the Public

Akua Dixon String Quartet

April 24, 12:30 PM
SOPAC
1 Trenchard Place
South Orange, NJ 07079

Akua Dixon will present an educational concert to introduce students to some African-American Composers and to African-American Classical Music. The program will include an introduction to the string family of instruments, demonstrate their sound differences and show how they function in the ensemble. Syncopation, playing with a Swing feel and with a Clave is also demonstrated. The program will emphasize the importance of reading and include a music reading demonstration, using a piece of music that young people would recognize by a current popular music artist or from a recent children's movie or popular tv show.