Premiere: Wharton Elementary School, March 2nd, 2017, for Da Camera Young Artists Music Encounters program

 

Duration:  ca. 6 min

 

Program Note:

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar is based on the children’s book by Eric Carle and was commissioned by the Da Camera Young Artist Program as part of their Music Encounters Butterfly Ballet lesson program in Houston elementary schools. In the lessons, Da Camera Artists perform the piece and the students design their own version of the caterpillar lifecycle by acting out each stage of the cycle with sounds and motion. The piece is performed over 50 times a year by Da Camera Young Artists throughout Houston.

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