The Bells Of St. Mary's - Sound of Music medley, Sounds of tuned bells.
Bells as a means of communication: Street Peddler; Stock Market opens and closes with a bell. Town Crier; Calling attention to community news.

There Is Nothing Like A Bell
Song of untuned bells
Bells used with other instruments: violin & concertina

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Church bells
Sunshine Horn Pipe
Ship bells & Morris dancers.

America
Special bells, Liberty Bell.

Demonstration of different bell techniques:

Aura Lee, Popeye the Sailor Man.

Students join in ringing and singing:
It's A Small World After All, When The Saints, Come Marching In

Oriental bell medley
Are You Sleeping? - Chopsticks
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Bells and the holidays.

"LET FREEDOM RING !"

PROGRAM CONTENT: SONGS and dramatized narratives depicting stages of freedom in the U.S.A. the world and what they signify.. **** Program for upper elementary & middle school students ****

1776: FREEDOM from Shenandoah
THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S /SOUND OF MUSIC medley

Street Peddler: free enterprise
Town Crier: free speech
JESU JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING: freedom of religion.

1752-1876: Story of the Liberty Bell
AMERICA

1863: LET FREEDOM RING!! President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

1876: LIBERTYBELL

RING A SONG OF FREEDOM!

Freedom equals participation.
Students join in ringing and singing.
1960: It's A Small World After All, We Shall Overcome

Freedom and responsibility = peaceful solutions to personal, family, country and world problems.

2002...LET FREEDOM RING!!
Tribute to freedom leaders and the United Nations: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela...