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Join us this Thursday to hear the outstanding work of KKIT and Orchestra Rouh! The concert will feature Gustav Holst’s The Planets, traditional Arabic music, and many other exciting selections. We hope you will be there to celebrate with us!
Thursday, June 7 | 5:30 pm
Chenery Auditorium
Free and open to the public. Bring your whole family!
Kalamazoo Kids in Tune has been scaring up Halloween spirit all over town this week.
On Thursday, we hosted our annual Spooktacular concert at Woods Lake Elementary, joined by our Middle School Kids in Tune friends, as well as Orchestra Rouh and guest performers from among our parents and community members. A packed house heard spooktacular music by Strauss, Holst, Williams, and Grieg. As always, the Kids in Tune Ghostbusters closed the concert!
On Saturday, the Middle School Kids in Tune took park in Make an Eerie Sound event at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, performing a concert and leading the young holiday museum visitors in an instrument petting zoo.
Check out these great pics:
Kalamazoo Kids in Tune Spooktacular Community Play Day is coming soon! If you haven’t heard about it yet: It’s a late afternoon event on Thursday October 26. All band and orchestra musicians of all ages are invited to come play great Halloween-themed orchestra music with us! Check out all the details and sign up at this link.
And please tell all your instrumentalist friends. We’ll rehearse, enjoy snacks and community together, and then play a short concert—beginning with a parade of costumes!
We’re excited to see you there with your instrument, ready to make music together.Below are links to the sheet music in PDF form. Just click and print! We’ll also have extra parts at the event. If you don’t see a link for your instrument, leave a comment at the bottom of the page and we’ll make parts for you. (saxophonists and bassoonists, we want to hear from you!)
Kalamazoo Kids in Tune Community Play Day is coming soon! If you haven’t heard about it yet: It’s a midday event on Monday July 31st. All band and orchestra musicians of all ages are invited to come play great orchestra music with us! Check out all the details and sign up at our KKIT Play Day Facebook Event. And please tell all your instrumentalist friends. We’ll rehearse, enjoy a picnic together, and then play a short concert.
We’re excited to see you there with your instrument, ready to make music together! Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist containing play-along videos of all six pieces we’ll play.
Below are links to the sheet music in PDF form. Just click and print! We’ll also have extra parts at the event. If you don’t see a link for your instrument, leave a comment at the bottom of the page and we’ll make parts for you. (saxophonists and bassoonists, we want to hear from you!)
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KKIT_PlayDaySummer2017_LowBrass
KKIT_PlayDaySummer2017_Trumpet
KKIT_PlayDaySummer2017_Percussion
Our big project this year is Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Can you name the planet that this rhythm comes from? Our kids spent the morning working on it…turns out that it’s a bit of a tongue twister. Try repeating it a few times while counting to 5 and see if you can keep everything in the right place!
The orchestra world got a little bigger today as our Summer Kids in Tune Beginners started lessons on their new instruments. A special day in Kalamazoo for our students and teachers!
The Kids in Tune staff spent Thursday and Friday moving everything we need from our home at Woods Lake to our summer sites: Arcadia Elementary and Maple Street Middle School. We’ve got the new lesson and orchestra rooms ready to start Monday morning!
See you soon!
Here’s a link to our 2017 Gala Finale Concert Youtube Playlist. There you can see video recordings of all the pieces we performed on our June 2nd concert in Chenery Auditorium.
Yesterday Ms. Donielle and Ms. Liz joined host Lori Moore for a television interview about Kalamazoo Kids in Tune and our Gala Finale Concert, Friday, June 2, 5:30pm, Chenery Auditorium.
Follow this link to see the conversation!
This morning Dr. Rick and Ms. Liz sat down with WMUK host Cara Lieurance to talk about Kalamazoo Kids in Tune and our Gala Finale Concert this Friday, June 2, 5:30 pm, Chenery Auditorium. Follow this link to listen to the conversation!
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