Children are like sponges; what they see and hear in their early years becomes part of their permanent brain chemistry. For that reason, exposure to different kinds of music is essential to a balanced childhood development, whether or not the child has any particular music skills or choses a career in music. Without good listeners, good musicians would have no audience.
The Oak Ridge Civic Music Association has several programs devoted to music education: the Oak Ridge Youth Symphony Orchestra and several family-oriented concerts that promote an interest in music for children of all ages.
The latest ORCMA endeavor is I've Got Rhythm, a free Family Concert that will be held Sunday afternoon, November 8 at 3 p.m. at the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center.
The afternoon's activities include a pre-concert session with volunteers where children will "build" musical instruments and use them in the concert. The concert will include "I've Got Rhythm" by George Gershwin; the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; "Yankee Doodle"; the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4; "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss, Jr.; Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, op. 46, no. 8; and several others. After the concert, ORCMA personnel will supervise a musical "petting zoo," where children can hold and play real instruments.
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