Nu Deco Imagination Resources
Nu Deco Imagination:
From The New World
Join Nu Deco Ensemble for our final performance of the season for K-12 students, recorded from the North Beach Bandshell!
About The Performance
Featuring Tank and the Bangas plus the music of Antonín Dvořák, Jessie Montgomery, Jessica Meyer, and symphonic reimaginations of the music of Dr. Dre, this performance explores how different cultures have influenced the music of the New World, especially music in the United States.
This concert and accompanying resources are intended for and available only to K-12 educators. An educator email will need to be provided while registering.
Nu Deco Imagination:
Musical Inspirations
About The Performance
This performance explores how composers often draw inspiration from the world around them in creating their compositions. Featuring the music of Leonard Bernstein, Valerie Coleman, Nina Simone, Anemoia, and symphonic reimaginations of the music of Earth, Wind & Fire.
Nu Deco Imagination:
A Musical Journey
About The Performance
This performance explores how the music composers create can be influenced by their surroundings and by traveling to new places. This performance features the music of Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, The Beach Boys, and newly composed works by living composers.
Nu Deco Imagination:
The Magic of Melody
About The Performance
Through the reimaginations of holiday classics, rock-inspired music, and newly composed works by living composers, this performance explores the magic of melody in music. Nu Deco Ensemble demonstrates how melody is the very essence of music and how feelings can be expressed through melody.
Nu Deco Imagination:
The Rhythm of Life and Music
Join us in the first of our series of interactive live stream performances for K-12 students! Previously broadcast live from the North Beach Bandshell, students have an opportunity to continue engaging with the orchestra by clapping, singing, and counting along. Access the concert recording, program, and quiz below!
About The Performance
This performance features both newly created and signature works of Nu Deco Ensemble and demonstrates how rhythm is not just the foundation of all music, but of life itself. Through classical music traditions, jazz influences, and popular music forms, Nu Deco presents how rhythm is the unifying factor that both connects and distinguishes different genres of music.
DIGITAL EDUCATION VIDEOS & RESOURCE GUIDES
During these uncertain times, we are committed to engaging and providing students in Miami-Dade and across the globe with high-quality performances, so we are utilizing our cinematically filmed live concert videos from Nu Deco’s past seasons to do just that! These 45-minute education videos cover various musical subjects including an in depth look at the music of selected living composers, multi-genre and multidisciplinary collaboration, and musical genres, and are accompanied by study/resource guides providing a more in-depth look at the music. Our hope is that these videos will provide your students with an opportunity to continue to engage with the orchestra, even while distance learning.
If you have any comments or would like to share any examples of your students using these tools, please email us at info@nu-deco.org. Additional digital education videos and resource guides will be shared during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Living Composers
We are thrilled to provide the first video in our Imagination digital education series, ‘Living Composers’. These composers are a voice for today’s society and produce music that is relevant, fresh, and that infuse the sounds, instruments, and genres of today. We’re excited to share this video featuring composers Jessica Meyer, Mason Bates, Aaron Lebos, Sam Hyken, Holly Harrison, and Paul Dooley and we hope that you can learn a little bit about them while being taken on a musical journey with Nu Deco.
Accompanying the video is a study guide that explores some of the musical concepts from the video in greater detail as well as post-concert quizzes based on academic level. These study guides meet the State of Florida’s C-Palms Standards. Click on the link below to access these resource materials!
