Purpose

 This project is designed and created to supplement the music listening experiences of elementary school students in general music classes. The goal is to provide enriching opportunities for these students to experience classically trained male and female singers performing Opera arias and duets, Broadway musical solos, adult and children’s choruses, from various cultures and time periods, in interesting and engaging ways. This project was designed for my own use. It is written from a music teacher’s perspective, but I have tried to make it accessible for parents and general classroom teachers. I am including in this plan all artifacts of this journey. I present this as a “cafeteria plan.” Take and use what is useful to you. The plan in its entirety is not sequential. I have been doing a survey with my students, at the beginning and ending of the school year. Students listen to the first 10-15 seconds of a piece of music from various genres, including Rock, Jazz, Rap, and Opera. They indicate how much they like or dislike on a scale form 1 to 10. Obviously this is not something you would have to do.

If you are interested in surveying your students before and after their exposure to Opera and other Classically trained singing, you could consider giving them a survey such as this one: The following is a list of songs and arias I chose for my survey ( I would upload them, but some of them are protected by copy rights.) 1. The Total Stranger In The Garden - Measha Brueggergosman & BBC Symp. Orch. - Robertson Surprise! Cabaret Songs ~ 2. Blue Suede Shoes 2:00 Elvis Presley The Essential Elvis Presley (Remastered) Rock 3. Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena! 2:28 Bryn Terfel Tutto Mozart! Classical 4. Light My Fire 6:58 The Doors The Very Best of the Doors (Bonus Track Version) Rock 5. Au fond du temple saint (Les Pêcheurs de Perles), Gallipoli 5:27 Nicolai Gedda & Ernest Blanc (Bizet) The Movies Go to the Opera Classical 6. Nessun Dorma (Turandot), The Witches of Eastwick 4:04 José Carreras (Puccini) The Movies Go to the Opera Classical 7. Juke Box Hero 4:04 Foreigner 4 (Remastered) Rock 8. Diggi, daggi, schurry, murry 1:28 Bryn Terfel Tutto Mozart! Classical 9. Despite and Still, Op. 41: no 4, Solitary Hotel by Samuel Barber 3:09 Jennifer Larmore Jennifer Larmore in Recital Classical 10. Make Some Noise 4:48 Hannah Montana Hannah Montana 2 - Meet Miley Cyrus Soundtrack 11. Bang That Beat 5:36 C+C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat Electronica/Dance 12. Vocalise, Op. 43, No. 4 5:20 Natalie Dessay The Miracle of the Voice Classical