Using a world map, the audience is taken on a musical journey, traveling from country and country to explore various cultures through percussion instruments.
Using a world map, the audience is taken on a musical journey, traveling from country and country to explore various cultures. By way of the drum (one of the world’s earliest instruments) the ensemble takes the audience to places such as China, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil and countries in Africa. Along the way, they learn the way some of the earliest percussion instruments were made, as well as the different materials present-day instruments are made of. The audience also learns how jazz and improvisation were born, and becomes able to distinguish between pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments.
Pennsylvania Curriculum Standards
(A=Assembly; W=Workshop; R=Residency)
9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts A, W, R
9.2 Historical & Cultural Contexts A, W, R
15.4 Learning Through Experience A, W, R
25.3 Pro-Social Relationships with Adults W, R
25.4 Pro-Social Relationships with Peers W, R
Featuring: Phil-A-Rhythm
Stephen Tipping is a percussionist and educator in the Greater Philadelphia Region. He performs and teaches an extensive scope of musical genres, including the marching arts, classical percussion, jazz and pop drumset, and steel pan. Stephen has performed across the East Coast, Arizona, Europe, Israel, and Puerto Rico. He most recently performed with Philadelphia-based Philadelphia Pan Stars (Philly Pan Stars) at the 2016 Brooklyn Panorama, the second largest panorama competition in the world.
Stephen currently serves as Instructor of Percussion at Delaware State University (Dover, DE), Caption Head/Lead Percussion Arranger of perennial TOB Chapter 9 Champions Caesar Rodney High School Marching Band (Camden, DE), and is now Music Consultant with 2016 WGI Championship A-Class Finalist Aftermath Percussion (Lehigh Valley, PA) after two years serving as Bass Technician on their return to Finalist status. Stephen holds a Bachelors of Music in Music Education from the University of Delaware and a Masters of Music Performance from the University of Arizona.
Joined Musicopia: 2001
