Pirate Ship - Brahms

The Pirate Ship is one of my favorite puppet shows. The classical piece is actually called "Hungarian Dance No. 5" composed by Johannes Brahms. He was born in 1833 in Hamburg, Germany.

Ms. Emily's Grandpa Bents was born north of Hamburg in 1878. He sailed to America in 1901 to attend the Lutheran Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Brahms large choral work "A German Requiem" is from texts from the Lutheran Bible. Back in the late 1980s, Ms. Emily visited Hamburg as a child when she was living in Germany.

Puppet Shows in LPM are a fun way to learn about classical form, tonalities, and themes.

Orchestra-Magical Lamp

Have your kids watch and listen to Aragonaise from Carmen (Magical Lamp):



Did your child pick out all of the different characters in the music?

Orchestra - Fox Hunt

Gioachino Antonio Rossini is the composer of one of the Blue Bug's puppet shows.  Enjoy the William Tell (Guillaume Tell) Overture Finale with all of the instruments playing the different characters of our Fox Hunt story.

Magical Lamp Show

Here are videos of the students performing the Magical Lamp puppet show. (Aragonaise from Carmen by Georges Bizet)

Wednesday Class   

Thursday Class

We have a lot of fun with classical music!

Pirate Ship

The students had a blast with this Puppet Show! "Hungarian Dance No.5" by Johannes Brahms. Here they are using props to tell the story.

4pm Class: http://youtu.be/I21DIGLT_z8

5pm Class: http://youtu.be/dn9Fx00IvDw

Triumphant March

The 1st year students are performing the Triumphant March (from Aida by Verdi). We had a lot of fun with all of the props.

Wednesday Class:


Thursday Class:

Magical Lamp Show

Here are videos of the students performing the Magical Lamp puppet show. (Aragonaise from Carmen by Georges Bizet)

Wednesday Class:

Thursday Class:

We have a lot of fun with classical music!

Triumphant March

The students are performing the Triumphant March (from Aida by Verdi).

The children were so excited to act out this show. . .

4 pm class:

5 pm class:

Didn't they do great!?!! I love how much fun they had with it! (and I enjoyed making all of the props.)

They did such a good job being quiet during the show...it gave me a big smile to have one kid shout out (while putting his prop away), "That was FUN!" (And the rest of us agreed!)

Magical Lamp

Here are videos of my students performing the Magical Lamp puppet show. (Aragonaise from Carmen by Georges Bizet)

4pm Class:

5 pm Class:

The children in both classes did a GREAT job! We have had a lot of fun with this classical piece of music. Next week, we start a new puppet show.