Wednesdays at 10am and 12pm.
Classes are humanities-based and appropriate for all high school ages. Educators and students of all subjects are invited to attend any or all of the five 50-minute sessions, complete with a tour of the Kimmel Center.
- All classes designed to stimulate student creativity
- Classes offered weekly and free of charge October through May
- Engaging interactive lessons on American Culture—past and present
- Select from a variety of fun-filled lessons involving music, dance and theater arts
- Classes taught by Kimmel Center Staff Teaching Artists
- Follow-up materials for continued classroom study
- Teachers may select one or all lessons
- Visit the MAEC Interactive Room where students are free to explore and use their imaginations
Click on the titles below for the expanded lesson plans.
Lesson #1:
American Musical Theater
All key components of a musical are explored as well as a brief history on the evolution of this unique American art form.
Lesson #2:
The Jazz Age: Tin Pan Alley
Flappers, jazz and razzamatazz are the essence
of this class where students take a musical
excursion through the "Roaring Twenties"
down a street called "Tin Pan Alley," the
birth-place of American Popular Music.
Lesson #3:
The Jazz Age: The Harlem Renaissance
Explore the music, dance, visual art and literary
works created during this time of cultural
rebirth in Harlem, New York City.
Lesson #4:
The Jazz Heritage in Philadelphia
This lesson affords students an opportunity
to learn about the great jazz legacy created
by some of the world’s most celebrated
musicians who were born in or who made
Philadelphia their home.
Lesson #5:
TSOP — The Sound of Philadelphia
Boogaloo down Broad Street to a sound called TSOP created by recording icons Kenny Gamble, and Leon Huff, the founders of Philadelphia International Records.
Merck Arts Education Classes incorporate the National Standards in The Arts: Music, Dance, Theater, American History, Geography, Social Studies and Language Arts.
