Project: Peace - 2 Part Singer's Edition

to Build a More Tolerant World (Musical) - Singer's Edition 5-Pak (2-Part)-From the stirring opening to its powerful conclusion this unique pop-style revue can help young people tackle the serious issues facing them in their world today. Ideal for upper-elementary and middle-school performers this40-minute show features 9 original songs available in 3-Part Mixed and 2-Part voicings with connecting narration and full staging choreography by John Jacobson. The Teacher's Manual comes with full accompanied songs narrationand staging. The Singer's Edition provides vocal lines narration and choreography only. Help each other tear down the walls that divide! Available: Teacher's Manual (3-Part Mixed and 2-Part) Singer's Edition 5-Pak (3-Part Mixedand 2-Part) Preview CD (full performance only) Performance/Accompaniment CD. Performance Time: 40 minutes. For grades 4-9.

The task: to write a piece that could involve children as players singers and composers alongside a professional symphony or chamber orchestra. The solution: a peace-cry for the biosphere in which the collaborative nature of theenterprise is a metaphor for a wished-for human enlightenment to the ways of the natural world. Davies provides five musical elements and five ways of development and uses these to illustrate five branches of life on earth:water-plants trees fish birds and mammals (including man). There is a space for answers from children's instrumental groups and then a larger space in which the children can develop the given ideas perhaps with members of theorchestra. Davies returns as composer to depict through an excess of development creation turned sour. Finally everyone comes together with a unison hymn with orchestra and instrumental groups celebrating the turn of thetide.This work for young instrumentalists children's chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the Association of British Orchestras as the centrepiece of an education project which coincided with the implementation of theNational Curriculum for music in schools in England and Wales echoing similar developments in Scotland and Northern Ireland.Score. Duration c. 25mins.