After fighting for as long as anyone could remember, four families come together through the power of music in

The Harmony Games.

  • The Harmony Games is a complete concert program designed for symphonic (or chamber orchestra) educational and family concerts.

    Through music and narration, the program introduces young concertgoers to the families and instruments that comprise the orchestra, while demonstrating numerous ways in which math and music are related.

    It is interactive, inspirational, and fun for all ages.

  • Educational components include

    • identifying instrument families as well as individual instruments, with both verbal descriptions, visual confirmation, and aural examples

    • math concepts such as counting, addition, grouping, ratios, transformation, odd/even

    • musical terms such as instrument names, beat, pulse, meter, glissando, phrase, chromatic, harmony, polyphony

    • learning through doing: keeping rhythm by conducting, snapping, or counting

    • engaging performance with call and response

    National Standards include

    • Standard 6: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

    • Standard 7: Evaluating music and music performance

    • Standard 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside of the arts

  • For educational programs, the program includes an optional section where the narrator and conductor guide the audience and orchestra through a review of the major concepts learned in the performance, including instrument names, grouping, dynamics, and tempo. Students also get the chance to conduct the orchestra.

 

fun and flexible

Details and Costs

  • The Harmony Games is between 42’-60’ duration. The main part is ca. 42’ and the optional additional interactive Q&A is flexible and can be between 5’-18’.

  • Full Orchestra: narr 2(1.2/pic)222 4231 T+2 hp str

  • Chamber Orchestra: narr 1111 2111 T/perc2 + 1 hp str

    • Percussion list: Kit (snare, kick, hi-hat, cymbals, 3 toms), Glockenspiel, Triangle, Bowed Cymbal, 2 Woodblocks, Mark Tree, Guiro, Tambourine, Slide Whistle, Rain Stick, Tam-tam, Castanets, 2 Agogo Bells, Whistle

Complete printed set of parts for purchase - $1000

  • PDFs may be provided in lieu of printed parts for $750.

  • The chamber version is performed from a subset of parts from the full version. An orchestra only needs to purchase a complete set once, regardless of which version is performed in the future.

  • Orchestra retains the set.

  • The set contains 1 Full Orchestra Score, 1 Chamber Orchestra Score, 1 Narrator P/V Score, and 1 Stage Manager P/V Score (with lights and slide cues). Additional full scores are $50 each; P/V scores $25 each.

  • To request a perusal PDF, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page.

Performance rights are $100 per season, regardless of number of performances.

  • Usage of projections by Cathy Weinfield-Zell are included with performance rights and are provided as a PowerPoint presentation.

Testimonials

  • The Harmony Games provided our third grade students with a rich and engaging experience, and tied seamlessly to the curriculum. The interactive nature of the score and the visuals makes the performance really come alive for students. - Skip Pardee, Collier County Fine Arts District Coordinator

  • The story was exciting! I liked it when they chose a winner and let us clap. But the family didn’t care that they won! They cared about everyone playing together. - Student

  • I think this was one of the best third grade story performances I have seen. - Music Teacher, Estates Elementary

Performances

Salina Symphony, January 2024 (Yaniv Segal, Maggie Spicer Brown)

Stiefel Theatre. Photos courtesy of Tanner Colvin

 

Reno Philharmonic, October 2021 (Laura Jackson, Jason Altieri)

Reno Philharmonic Virtual and Outdoor Performance

During COVID indoor performance restrictions, the Reno Philharmonic –led by Music Director Laura Jackson– recorded The Harmony Games in an empty hall to stream to classrooms and also performed the complete work safely outdoors to a rapturous response!

Bartley Ranch. Photos courtesy of David Calvert Photography.

 

Naples Philharmonic, September-October 2019 (Radu Paponiu, Carolann Sanita)

Daniels Pavilion. Photos courtesy of Artis—Naples.

 

Naples Philharmonic, September-October 2018 (Radu Paponiu, Carolann Sanita)

Daniels Pavilion. Photos courtesy of Artis—Naples.

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