“As an educator for 12 years, I have never seen a children’s concert performed as appropriately as the one you did for us… Thank you again, and I only hope that we can go again and again.”
—2nd grade teacher, Wilson K-8 School, Amphitheater
The KinderKonzerts! program brings more than 3,200 students and 150 teachers in grades K – 2nd to the Tucson Symphony Center for performances by the TSO Chamber Orchestra. These 45-minute concerts utilize a variety of classical music to illustrate the annual theme, “Music Tells a Story.” The concert shows how music communicates with the listener to create a mood, sense of place, characters, and action, all to tell a story without words. The centerpiece of the performance is a musical enactment of a story by local author Susan Lowell, featuring the TSO String Quartet, with the music composed by Ilona Vukovic-Gay, TSO’s Assistant Principal Violist.
“At the Symphony I learned that music talks without saying a word.”
—Lucilla, Ocotillo Elementary, Sunnyside
Click image to view a video about KinderKonzerts!
The 2012-13 story is Josefina Javelina: A Hairy Tale.
Examples of past stories put to music include:
2009/10: Josefina Javelina: A Hairy Tale
2010/11: Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella
2011/12: Dusty Locks and the Three Bears
12-13 KinderKonzert performances are:
Monday April 8, 2013 11:00 AM
Tuesday April 9, 2013 9:45 or 11:00 AM
Wednesday April 10, 2013 9:45 or 11:00 AM
Thursday April 11, 2013 9:45 or 11:00 AM
Friday April 12, 2013 9:45 or 11:00 AM
Nearly 40 public, private, parochial and home school groups take part in TSO KinderKonzerts!, with schools travelling from as far away as Oracle and Rio Rico. Teachers participating in the KinderKonzert program receive the TSO’s Making Music Mine curriculum. For more information and examples of this curriculum, please go to the Making Music Mine page.
For more information about the TSO’s KinderKonzerts! program, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Education Programs Manager at (520) 792 – 9155 x111.
Download the 2012/13 KinderKonzert Registration Form (PDF)
KinderKonzerts! is supported in part by the BBVA Compass Foundation
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