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Music Mobile™
A third-grade student enjoys trying the instruments during a presentation of the Music Mobile™.
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Every fall, the Showcase House Music Mobile™ begins its educational presentations to third graders in the San Gabriel Valley. Since 1971, our Music Mobile™ has put thousands of miles on its odometer to bring the magic of music to nearly 130,000 students. Designed and launched by the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts in partnership with the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, it has earned local and national awards for originality and educational excellence. Proceeds from the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts have funded this highly effective Program ever since it first rolled out into the community. Even extending the impact of Music Mobile™ by licensing the program to other music-affiliated organizations.
However…
The Music Mobile™ program has gotten a facelift. With our evolving populations and new approaches to education, it was time to look ahead and embrace the future. Our new Music Knowledge Lab is grounded in the STEAM curriculum and offers a visual, auditory, and participatory exploration of the four universal building blocks of music: beat/rhythm, pitch/melody, harmony, and tone color. The multi-media experience highlights both the common threads and the rich differences found across global musical traditions.
The newly launched Music Mobile™ is now on the road, bringing a fresh, engaging, and fun-filled experience to third graders throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Each segment of the program features live narration, projected animation, documentary clips, and most importantly, an interactive activity for students. Music Mobile™ is officially back, delivering joy, discovery, and musical inspiration to schools across our community.
Music Mobile™'s Multi-Generational Impact
In 1971, I was a 3rd grader at Franklin Elementary in Pasadena when Music Mobile™ first rolled onto the scene. They held up the French Horn, then stretched out a 16-foot-long piece of rope and told us that was how much brass tubing wrapped in the horn. Who knew? From that instant, I was hooked. Although I had been playing violin, I knew that someday I would be a French Horn player.
And it happened. I switched to the Horn in 7th grade – and after that music school at Indiana University. Today, I teach band and orchestra in Pasadena schools and play horn professionally. But it all began with that shiny brass horn when Music Mobile™ came to my school and showed all of us little kids the instruments. And a very special one that captured my imagination.
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