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Live Music in the Schools is Here!
Texas Music Partners Live Music in the Schools is a program designed to bring professional musicians into your school to perform for students. Each year TMP will feature a style of music, artist, or theme. Texas Music Partners will come to your school and
- Teach a workshop on the season’s featured theme. Then
- That Friday, a live band will visit the school to perform a show based on that theme, while encouraging students to try band, orchestra, or choir.
We also have a course for Middle and High School students which includes a performance and Q&A session in the same class. This is for students who are already in their school’s music program and may be thinking of seeking a career or side occupation in the music industry.
Musical Focus
The musical styles we focus on originated in the United States or gained popularity through American society. These include, but are not limited to, jazz, blues, rock & roll, and R&B. We also teach students how these styles have influenced popular music, helping them connect with the origins of the music they listen to today.
Program Goals
- Introduce Music History and Appreciation: The Live Music in the Schools program aims to introduce music history and appreciation to students directly.
- Connect Music to American Society: To show the student how that music segment fits into American society.
- Link Past Music with the Present: Once students learn about a segment of American music, we show them how that segment fits into today’s popular music.
- Reinforcement Through Live Performance: Later that week professional musicians visit the school to reinforce what they’ve learned by performing live.
- Encourage Students to Learn and Support Live Music: After the performance, students are encouraged to learn to play an instrument, as well as support live music.
- Support Local Music Programs: This program is meant to help our local band, orchestra, and choir directors by getting more students involved in music.
- Foster Creative Thinking: The program helps students experience music as a creative outlet, encouraging them to think outside the box.
This Season’s Theme
This season’s theme (2024-25) is Blues Influence on Rock & Roll.
1. Standard Workshop and Performance
Recommended Audience: 3rd – 8th grade
Class Size: Workshop: About 50 students / Performance: All students, 3rd grade and up, in elementary and middle school.
- Offered: In-school only
- Duration (2 sessions): 1 workshop and 1 performance (45 minutes each)
- The workshop should be done the week of the performance. TMP can teach up to 3, 45-minute workshops per school, if scheduled back-to-back in one day.
- Performances are usually done on a Friday morning or afternoon. One performance per school, per year.
- Prerequisites: None
2. Performance for After-School Programs
Recommended Audience: 3rd – 12th grade
Performance Only: All students enrolled in an after-school program (ACE, Prime Time, Boys & Girls Club, etc.)
- Offered: After-school only*
- Duration: 1 performance (~45 minutes)
- Please schedule all students to attend at the same time, prior to your pick-up schedule.
- One performance per school, per year.
- Prerequisites: None
*If an in-school performance is already scheduled at that school it takes precedence, as students will already be at that performance.
3. Performance with a Q&A Session
Recommended Audience: Middle School – High School students
Class Size: All students in a school’s music program
- Offered: In-school only
- Duration: 1 performance with a Q&A session (~45 minutes)
- This is for students who have thought about music as a career or side occupation and would like to hear professional musicians perform and ask them questions.
- Performances are usually done on Friday morning or afternoon (e.g. 9:30, or 1:30). One performance per school, per year.
- Prerequisites: None
School Performances in 2023-24
- Blazier Intermediate
- Ortega Elementary
- Linder Elementary
- Zavala Elementary
- Becker Elementary
- Doss Elementary
- Brown Elementary
- Winn Montessori
- Govalle Elementary
- Wooten Elementary
- Wayside Sci-Tech High School
- Palm Elementary
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Past Seasons
History of the Blues pt. II (1945-present)
(School year, 2023-24)
TMP expanded on History of the Blues pt. I with History of the Blues pt. 2, from post WWII to the present or electric blues. This season Texas Music Partners
- Showed students the difference between acoustic and electric instruments.
- Demonstrated what the traditional blues form sounds like.
- Expanded on the “Call & Response” form by analyzing the blues lyrical form.
- Demonstrated how the sound of the blues evolved from the late 1940s to the present.
- Showed how blues influenced other styles of music.
- Demonstrated how other styles of music influenced the blues.
- Had students sing along with the popular blues song “I Got My Mojo Workin’.”
History of the Blues, pt. I (1870-1940)
(School year, 2022-23)
This was TMP’s first full year with the Live Music in the Schools program. We expanded our program to include in-school classes and performances, as well as after-school performances.
We took a more detailed look at the styles that made up the blues. Then we visited the different styles of the blues, during that period, including early blues, rural blues, urban blues and boogie-woogie. We ended with a pop video that is based on the blues progression to show the influence of the blues in today’s music.
A Brief History of the Blues
(Spring semester, 2022)
We started the Live Music in the Schools program in the spring semester of 2022, playing for elementary after-school programs.
We went on a short trip through the history of the blues from its inception to the present.
