A Showcase of Emily Fitzpatrick's Students' Work
The video to the right is an example of my work with college students and adults at the Forest Roberts Theatre at Northern Michigan University. In 2013, I had the privilege of directing vocal music for their production of "Les Miserables." This video is a from a music rehearsal about halfway through the rehearsal process.
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Lakeview Chorus is a select group of students that I direct at my school. The group sings at school programs and special events and also out in the community such as Northern Michigan University hockey games, the local tree lighting ceremony, and nursing homes at Christmas time. This is a news story about a recent caroling event at a local nursing home.
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In this 2nd grade lesson, students were broken into groups of 2 or 3 and assigned a line of the poem "I Don't Believe in Bigfoot" by Eileen Spinelli. With their line, each group had to choose an instrument, motion, and vocal inflection that would go with that particular line of the poem. Then we put each line together into the final pieces and recorded them. This poem was used at Young Authors so these students had a head start on memorization!
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The video to the right displays artwork that 2013-14 kindergarten students at my school created with their art teacher, inspired by paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and music by Arnold Schonberg and Richard Wagner. It also features a musical piece that each class created in my music class, inspired by the shapes in Kandinsky's artwork.
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The pictures below were drawn by third grade students after listening to the Classical Kids story "Mozart's Magic Fantasy," a children's version of Mozart's "The Magic Flute." The pictures depict scenes from the story that they imagined while listening.