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JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

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Jazz for Young People Curriculum Online www.

These charts are based on repertoire from the Jazz for Young People Curriculum,

a multimedia jazz appreciation curriculum.

This educational website supplements the Jazz for Young People Curriculum

Jazz for Young People

Curriculum

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with original audio and video clips, classic photographs, engaging biographies, and

Let Wynton Marsalis welcome your students into the infectious energy of swing.

dynamic activities that enliven jazz for students of all ages. A great resource for

As the voice behind the Jazz for Young People Curriculum, he brings the music

any teacher, each online lesson features a Tips for Teachers section that offers

to life through vibrant audio examples, lively activities, and narration filled with

an array of classroom activities and access to a forum that allows teachers to

warmth and humor. Intended primarily for 4th–9th graders, this multimedia kit is

exchange their own lesson plans. Students, teachers, and jazz fans alike can enter

designed for both musicians and non-musicians and provides flexible lessons that

the site at

can be taught in one semester-long unit or in shorter, individual units. Open the

box. Open your students to the joy of jazz.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz.

With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz

Orchestra, and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Each curriculum kit includes:

advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by

• A 10-CD set (including one CD-ROM) of newly recorded music performed

producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast

by the LCJO and special guests.

events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and

• An in-depth Teaching Guide that leads educators step-by-step through

international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs,

each lesson: explaining jazz styles, musical concepts, historical information,

recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival,

and key jazz figures; suggesting participatory activities and cross-curricular

a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced

links; providing additional resources and integrating the National Standards

training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children’s

for Music Education.

concerts, lectures, adult education courses, film programs, and student and

educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis,

• A set of 30 Student Guides includes focused listening charts, fun activities,

President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown,

historical summaries, biographies, and photographs that reinforce musical

Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and staff, Jazz

concepts.

at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2004-05 season.

• A video that enlivens the classroom experience by taking students behind the

This is the inaugural season in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home—Frederick P.

scenes at the curriculum recording session.

Rose Hall—the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted

to jazz.

For more information, visit

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