Students, you did an excellent job on the all school, Musical History Tour, performance. In case you did not get a program for your memory book, here it is:
The Caprock Musical History Tour
April 7, 2009 6:30 P.M. Central High School Auditorium
Kindergarten- Mrs. Snow, Mrs. Piper
B-I-N-G-O……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………folksong
The Farmer in the Dell………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………..folksong
John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt………………………………………………………………………………………….……folksong
First Grade- Mrs. Dillon, Mrs. Antczak
America the Beautiful………………………………………………………………………………….…………….Katherine Lee Bates
Take Me Out to the Ballgame…………………………………………………………………………………………..Norworth/Tilzer
Yankee Doodle………………………………………………………………………………………..………….Revolutionary War Song
When the Saints Go Marching In…………………………………………………………………………………………Emma Cotton
John the Rabbit………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…American folksong
Billy Boy…………………………………………………………………………………………….………….Mountain Song, silly version
Third Grade- Mrs. Miller-Forrest, Mrs. Vidmar
You’re a Grand Old Flag………………………………………………………………………………………….……George M. Cohan
America…………………………………………………………………………………..……………………..Samual Smith 1832 (words)
Li’l Liza Jane………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….folksong
Bicycle Built For Two……………………………………………………………………………………….……………………..Harry Dacre
In the Good Old Summer Time……………………………………………………………………………………………..George Evans
Simple Gifts……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Quaker/Colonial song
Second Grade-Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Gray
This Land Is Your Land……………………………………………………………………………………………………….Woody Guthrie
The Erie Canal…………………………………………………………………………………………Traditional New York work song
I’ve Been Working On the Railroad………………………………………………………………….……………American folksong
John Henry………………………………………………………………………………………..…….…West Virginia tall tale folksong
Home On the Range……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..cowboy song
Buffalo Gals…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………folk song
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…………………………………………………………………………………….………………………spiritual
Follow the Drinking Gourd………………………………………………………………………Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman, Seeger
Clementine…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….Montrose
Fourth Grade-Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. Pond
“All That Glitters Might Be Colorado” – A Colorado History Musical with songs and script written especially for fourth graders by Cherry Shellabarger, 1999; also including ‘Tis the Land Where the Columbines Grow by A.J. Fynn and America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates
The Blue and the Gray
Grades Five, Six, Seven, and Eight
Mrs. Meier, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Muller, Mr. Saturnino
The Blue and the Gray, Songs and Soul of the Civil War ….arranged by Roger Emerson and John Jacobson
Battle Cry of Freedom…………………………………………………………………………………………….George Frederick Root
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp………………………………….………….…………………………………………………………George F. Root
Goober Peas……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Pindar and Nutt
The Cruel War Suite………..Traditional American Folk songs; Tenting Tonight ………………….Walter Kittredge
Blue Tail Fly………………………………..D.D. Emmett Oh! Susanna…….Stephen Foster
Dancers: Ben Ronco, Troy Ronco, Isaac Winslow, Dillon Livingston, Devlin Sherrill, Tanner Blee, Brisco Williams, Heathryn Livingston, Maddie Jones,Reighny Mallinson, Emily Drake, Alex Antczak, Katie Vidmar, Bryna Sherrill, Karen Coty, Amelia Kozlowicz
Good News…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………traditional spiritual
Shenandoah………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..American folksong
Battle Hymn of the Republic………………………………………………………………………………………..…Julia Ward Howe
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Pianist…………………Amy Long-Markakis
Director……………………………Cherry Shellabarger
Choreographer for dance break………………..Theresa Kahl Blee
Costumes Coordinator: Kathy Swelstad, Lynda Nelson
Costume design and construction: Anne-Marie Klein, Myra Keller, Trudy Franklin, Bernadette Brooks, Reighny and Linda Mallinson, Kelly Hexom Thanks to Mrs. Hasty for clothing ten sixth grade girls in pioneer dresses
Backdrop construction, painting, design: Art Teacher Mrs. Flenard, Mrs. Shellabarger, Lynda Nelson, Cora Rothenberger, Ryan, Jaryn, D.J. and Becky Gibb
Special Thanks to the Nazarene Church for providing a room to paint and to David and Martha May Odelberg for feeding us and cleaning up after the artists
Thank you to Mr. Phillips, Mr. Sherrill, and Mrs. O’Gara for teaching the Virginia Reel in P.E. and to all the faculty at Caprock for your support and accommodation for rehearsals
A huge thank you to all the parents who found costumes, purchased materials, taxied performers, encouraged, and then applauded and praised loudly. We appreciate you!
Director’s Notes: What you will see and hear tonight
There are ninety-four folk songs listed in the Core Knowledge Sequence for grades K-5. Relax, we are only performing 26 of them tonight. These song were carefully selected by Core Knowledge educators to match content and skills learned in other classroom subjects, particularly history, as well as being useful for learning music elements such as steady beat, meter (3/4, 4/4, 6/8)rhythm, melody and harmony. All the songs you will hear from Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade and Third Grade appear on the Core Knowledge song list for that respective grade level. These songs are not only FUN to learn and perform, they provide associations to reinforce memory of facts and details.
You will hear and see a lot of clapping tonight. Clapping is an excellent way to learn steady beat, differences in meter (waltz, march, dance), and to experience syncopation. In singing the song, B.I N.G.O, Kindergarten students are learning to spell, subtract letters and add claps, as well as to focus on the song. First and Second graders are learning the coordination of Step, Clap, Clap, while singing fun folk lyrics and experiencing waltz time when they perform Take Me Out to the Ballgame, and Home on the Range. Listen for syncopation when grades five through eight perform Good News…and that good old country stomp in Tall Texas, as sung by Fourth Grade.
“Rodeo” is the recorded music you hear to accompany dancing of the Virginia Reel. Rodeo is a third grade Core Knowledge listening selection written by American Composer Aaron Copeland. Copeland liked to incorporate American folk songs into his compositions and to champion the common man in his pieces.
The Civil War is a subject introduced in second grade and covered in greater depth in the fifth grade. I have enjoyed staging this particular musical by Roger Emerson and John Jacobson with Core Knowledge Fifth and Sixth Graders several times in past years, and am looking forward to directing this more advanced version with grades five through eight . American Musical Theatre is one of the units for eighth grade Core Knowledge music. Listen for the beautiful, developing voices.
All That Glitters Might Be Colorado is my own original composition. It was written especially for Colorado Fourth Graders in order to fulfill the final project requirements for a college Colorado History course. I would choose to make research into music any day. The musical was first performed at Lincoln Academy in Arvada, Colorado.
Cherry Shellabarger, April 7, 2009