Today's concert addresses the following National Music Standards:


  • 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.


  • 7. Evaluating music and music performance.


  • 9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.


and the following Pennsylvania State Academic Standards for
the Arts and Humanities:


  • 9.2. Identify, compare, contrast and analyze works in the arts in their historical and cultural context.


  • 9.2.C. Relate works in the arts to varying styles and genre and to the periods in which they were created.


  • 9.2.H. Identify, describe and analyze the work of Pennsylvania artists in music.

  • 9.3.B. Analyze and interpret specific characteristics of works in the arts.