Monterey County Pops! Saturates Greenfield Schools with Music on May 12, 2022
On May 12, 2022, Monterey County Pops! will provide a full day and evening of musical programs, interactive workshops, clinics, and a free shared evening community concert in Greenfield Schools.
Monterey County Pops! has been working with Greenfield school music programs since 2017, presenting workshops and shared community concerts. During the pandemic, the Pops! conducted live instrument classes for Greenfield High students via Zoom and created a hybrid Zoom+Video presentation of Peter and the Wolf for elementary schools. A TV series of eighteen instrument classes (Pops! Pros Teach) was created in collaboration with AMP TV in Monterey and posted to www.montereycountypops.org for use by student musicians in all of Monterey County.
The day-long musical event will include –
- Morning and early afternoon presentations of Peter and the Wolf live in Greenfield Elementary schools.
- Afternoon workshops, instrumental clinics, and rehearsals for music students at Greenfield High School.
- A free Family Concert featuring the Monterey Count Pops! professionals combined with the high school musicians and a guest choir from Hartnell College at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited!!
Peter and the Wolf
In the morning and early afternoon, the Woodwind Quintet of the Monterey County Pops!, consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn, augmented by percussion will present a lively, interactive program in several elementary schools.
The performance will include a mini-concert, instrument demonstrations, and the interactive musical tale for children, Peter and the Wolf. In this musical adventure, a narrator tells the story while each instrument represents a character. The presentation will conclude with a question and answer session.
Instrument Clinics and Workshops
In the afternoon the twenty professional musicians of the Monterey County Pops! will be in residence at Greenfield High School conducting instrument clinics, workshops, and rehearsing with the students.
Workshops will be offered by flute, clarinet, sax, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, and percussion.
The following Greenfield High musical groups will rehearse and perform side-by-side with the Monterey County Pops! professionals – Concert Band 1, Concert Band 2, Mariachi, Choir, Guitar Class.
The FREE FAMILY CONCERT will take place on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union of Greenfield High School, 225 South El Camino Real, Greenfield.
The public is invited!! No tickets are required. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Monterey County Pops!, the area’s only provider of free-to-the-public professional concerts, is proud to present on May 12, 2022, 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union of Greenfield High School, its 20-member fully professional Wind Ensemble conducted and bilingually hosted by Music Director, Dr. Carl Christensen, in a program of light classics, marches, movie music, and traditional music from Mexico.
The Greenfield High Band 1, Band 2, Mariachi, Guitar Class and Choir conducted by Greenfield High Music Faculty, Matt Huot and Michael Hardt will be performing side-by-side with the Pops!
Special guests, the Hartnell College Chamber Singers Ensemble, conducted by Sandy Rudo, will perform a medley from the hit musical Hamilton.
The concert will conclude with We Don’t Talk About Bruno from Encanto and the traditional De Colores performed by the over 100 student and professional musicians.
This and other free Pops! performances are made possible by generous donations, sponsorships, and foundation grants. La Plaza Bakery will provide refreshments for the participants between the afternoon workshops and the evening concert.
Further information: www.montereycountypops.org, 831 484-5511
CONTACTS FOR INTERVIEWS:
- Board President – Steve DeCarli (831) 596-7329
- Board Vice President – Doug Lee (831) 373-8550
- Conductor – Carl Christensen (831) 484-5511
